SLM Database

Eradication of invasive species and revegetation of degraded rangelands by different treatments, including oversowing with grass seed mixture, supplementing with lime, cattle dung, and "brush packing" (laid out branches).

• Compiler: Klaus Kellner
• 01/29/2011 3:12 p.m.

Stone walls built on sloping fields to create terraces for cultivation and conservation: both ancient and contemporary.

• Compiler: William Critchley
• 01/02/2011 10:18 a.m.

Contour lines of vetiver grass planted within fields of sugar cane, on stream banks and roadsides, to act as ‘hedges against erosion’.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 01/09/2011 10:21 a.m.

Rehabilitation of areas degraded by strip mining, through returning stockpiled topsoil and transplanting of indigenous species, to promote revegetation.

• Compiler: Kirsten Mahood
• 02/08/2011 9:41 a.m.

Naturally growing or sown perennial grasses/herbs providing cover between rows in sloping vineyards, where the vines are usually oriented up and down slope.

• Compiler: Nicole Guedel
• 03/16/2011 10:28 a.m.

Runoff harvesting through annually constructed V-shaped microcatchments, enhanced by downslope ploughing.

• Compiler: Francis Turkelboom
• 03/10/2011 2:25 p.m.