SLM Database

The technology of establishing shelterbelts/woodlots was developed by Sustainable Land Management Project to protect arable lands, habitations and infrastructure from hot desiccating winds blowing a speed of 80-90 km/hr and very high evapotranspiration rates that create the problem of moving/shifting sand dunes. The limiting factor in establishing shelterbelts/woodlots was the ...

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• 10/03/2012 9:46 a.m.

The Sustainable Land Management Project (SLMP) and its Implementing Partner i.e the Bannu Forest division collaborated with local community to use Kana as a source of protection against this eroding factor of sand dunes. The Kana being a local species is highly resistant to water stress and has high growth ...

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• 10/03/2012 9:46 a.m.

i) The local community organization in Tehsil Nagarparkar have applied brakes on rapid deforestation and degradation of natural resources through local youth named GREEN GUARDS organized by SCOPE. ii) The community organization possesses a ritual to protect trees by local women who are proclaiming trees as their brothers, by tying ...

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• 07/13/2010 2:50 p.m.

An area of 7000 acres in the village Dhurnal in District Chakwal is used for grazing of animals. The area is part of Potohar Plateau characterized by ravines and undulating lands. Whereas livestock rearing is the main source of livelihood for villagers, the grazing capacity of the rangeland area located ...

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• 10/03/2012 9:46 a.m.

Nangarparkar, Tharparkar is a fragile arid and semiarid ecosystem which is subjected to desertification due to frequent droughts, pressure on natural vegetative cover due to exploitation by human and livestock (for fodder, timber, firewood, gum resin, medicinal herbs extraction etc.) and limited water resources. Desertification threatened livelihood of about 1.3 ...

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• 08/27/2010 3:28 p.m.

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• 07/12/2010 11:02 a.m.

Contribuir al mejoramiento general y equitativo de la calidad de vida manejando sustentablemente el ecosistema del cordón fronterizo entre Perú y Ecuador, para aprovechar las oportunidades de mercados de productos con etiqueta ecológica. Potenciar las capacidades de grupos de pequeños productores de las zonas áridas de Zapotillo (Ecuador) y Lancones ...

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• 08/26/2010 5:56 p.m.

Se trata de la captación del agua de neblinas a través de un sistema de captación del agua contenida en las neblinas mediante el uso de atrapanieblas artificiales construidos con malla Rashell de 35% de sombreamiento. Cada atrapanieblas consta de un panel de 48 m2 de superficie (12 x 4 ...

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• 06/28/2010 11:16 a.m.

Comprende 4 pogramas: Programa de Fortalecimiento de la Organización Comunal. Programa de Conservación. Programa de recuperación que conprende actividades de reforestación, manejo de flora y fauna, manejo de pastos, regeneración de bosque. Programa de Altenativas Socioeconómicas viables|

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• 06/28/2010 11:16 a.m.

Practica de una tecnología social muy antigua, que consiste en la construcción y mantenimiento de acequias “amunadoras” (4,500 a 4,600 msnm), respetando las curvas a nivel, en las laderas de las montañas que recogen o captan el agua de las quebradas que se cargan en tiempos de lluvias, las que ...

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• 06/28/2010 11:16 a.m.