SLM Database

The indigenous community in Bolipara village of the Thanchi upazlia (sub-district) of the Bandarban district are reducing or preventing land degradation through the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants. This practice provides the raw material needed, by local traditional healers, to produce herbal medicines for the indigenous and tribal peoples.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 12/26/2018 6:02 a.m.

Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is a simple, low-cost forest restoration method that can effectively convert deforested lands to more productive forests.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 02/18/2019 12:03 p.m.

Landform changes to dyke and ditch to introduce multiple crops.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 11/26/2018 4:37 a.m.

Natural Vegetative Strips (NVS) are narrow strips of naturally growing grasses and herbs intentionally left unploughed along the contours of slope land to serve as buffers that prevent soil erosion during heavy rains.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 09/09/2019 8:06 a.m.

The coppice management of Sal (Shorea robusta) tree is a forest management practice to regain the natural forest resources in central and northern parts of Bangladesh.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 05/20/2019 5:43 a.m.

Creation of green shelter-belt along the coast line through plantation of Jhau (Casuarina equisetifolia) to reduce vulnerabilities and hazards of extreme weather events like cyclones.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 02/06/2019 6:49 a.m.

Mixed plantation technique with slow growing indigenous plant species in hill slope, that plays an important role to protect land degradation.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 02/05/2019 9:53 a.m.

Mound plantation with non-mangrove species to transform mono-culture plantations subsequently into more ecologically resilient, mixed species plantations and as well as to accelerate natural processes of accretion and land stabilization in coastal areas.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 04/25/2019 12:58 p.m.

Marshy land is transformed into a ridge and ditch area, where the ridges are wide enough for the nursery of diverse plants and seedlings and where after 6-8 years the yearly management practices the land got strong enough for various agricultural practices (i.e. guava, hog plum, plums and timber wood …

• Compiler: Rahatul Islam
• 12/28/2016 7:31 a.m.

Bench terraces are a soil and water conservation measure used on sloping land with relatively deep soils to retain water and control erosion. They are normally constructed by cutting and filling to produce a series of level steps or benches. This allows water to infiltrate slowly into the soil. Bench …

• Compiler: Md Babul Hossain
• 12/21/2018 7:14 p.m.