SLM Database

The use of coconut leaves mulch for winter melon cultivation helps to conserve soil moisture, reduces evaporation, reduces weeds, saves water, preserves the soil from erosion, and increases crop productivity.

• Compiler: Sok Pheak
• 08/23/2017 6:06 p.m.

Alliance farming refers to collaboration between crop farmers and pastoralists, who agree to use the same land and related resources (crop residues as fodder for pastoralists; dung as fertilizer for crop farmers) for their mutual benefit.

• Compiler: Blasius Azuhnwi
• 01/11/2018 12:48 p.m.

Application of Tithonia diversifolia (Mexican sunflower) as green manure

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/08/2010 3:02 p.m.

Apiculture (beekeeping) is a traditional practice providing a high number of non-timber forest products.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/16/2010 9:22 a.m.

Un verger, planté avec différentes espèces fruitières et fixatrices d'azote alternés dans les rang, est conduit sans pésticides, grace a une diversité d'espèces végétales (plantes aromatiques, mellifères) qui de plus attirent une diversité animale.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 05/15/2017 11:55 a.m.

Infrastructure of stone, mortar and concrete, built along the waterline, with the aim of retaining sediment dragged by water runoff.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:23 a.m.

Afforestation is one of the key technologies to address the fragility of ecosystems: it provides better protection against erosion and makes better use of rainfall in order to maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 08/05/2011 11:45 a.m.

Small walls of stone built on hillsides with slopes generally greater than 40%, second-level curves, which ensures a good infiltration and contributes to reducing the erosive power of water runoff.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:24 a.m.

Vegetative measure based on the planting of the bush, Leucaena leucocephala, on line along the level curves in the steep slopes

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:28 a.m.

It is a technique which uses the structure of a cross-slope barrier of Aloe vera to combat soil erosion by decreasing surface wash and increasing infiltration.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 10/08/2010 4:21 p.m.