SLM Database

Agave forestry land reclamation system with native agaves, trees, shrubs and grasses planted through participatory action for a sustainable production of mezcal and other products in order to generate high incomes for farmers.

• Compiler: Christian Prat
• 03/04/2011 11:45 a.m.

Assisted cork oak regeneration in the Sehoul forest, by acorn seeding and seedling plantation (derived from a plant nursery), involving careful husbandry and protection from grazing

• Compiler: Miloud Chaker
• 03/31/2011 9:25 a.m.

Crops rotation: cereals / fodder legumes (lupin), with a biennial crop rotation

• Compiler: Al Karkouri Jamal
• 04/24/2011 12:55 p.m.

Rehabilitation of a gullied slope and gully control, by plantation of Atriplex halimus fodder shrubs.

• Compiler: Laouina Abdellah
• 05/15/2011 5:20 p.m.

Contour planting of olive trees with crops, legumes and vegetables intercropping

• Compiler: Laouina Abdellah
• 10/10/2011 11:19 a.m.

Use of prescribed fire (or ‘controlled burn’) to reduce the fuel load in the form of live and dead plant material and thus to prevent the likelihood of more damaging wildfire.

• Compiler: Manuela Carreiras
• 07/01/2011 9:25 a.m.

Linear strips are strategically located in areas where total or partial removal of the forest biomass is possible. This technology contributes towards preventing the occurrence and spread of large forest fires and reducing their consequences for the environment, people, infrastructures, etc.

• Compiler: Celeste Coelho
• 10/28/2010 11:28 a.m.

Drip irrigation systems gradually apply water into the zone around the stem of the irrigated plant.

• Compiler: Anatoly Zeyliger
• 01/15/2011 6:09 p.m.

Reduced tillage of almonds and olives to improve physical and chemical soil properties and reduce runoff and soil erosion.

• Compiler: Joris De Vente
• 05/04/2015 12:31 p.m.

Earth-banked terraces in cereal and almond cropland covered with drought-resistant shrubs.

• Compiler: Joris De Vente
• 07/01/2011 9:47 a.m.