SLM Database

The practice consisted in the purification and innovative refinement of the urban wastewate for agriculture reuse. In the summer 2009, the purified and refined water was in fact distributed for free to farmers for irrigation purposes. The project for the application of the practice was drawn up on the initiative …

• ຜູ້ສັງລວມຂໍ້ມູນ: UNCCD PRAIS
• 09/17/2010 11:07 a.m.

The Agrigento province area is affected by aridity and water scarcity. The availabe surface and underground waters are polluted or saline and therefore not suitable for irrigation purposes. Dam and artificial reservoires have been costructed in the past decades to meet the growing water demand of agriculture and civil uses. …

• ຜູ້ສັງລວມຂໍ້ມູນ: UNCCD PRAIS
• 09/17/2010 11:07 a.m.

In the 1950s the mountainous area of Calabria was characterized by subsistence farming. This activity use land often in slope that was affected by erosion and hydrogeological problems. Soil degradation was mitigated with wide reforestation with Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Poiret. It's been used Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Poiret for …

• ຜູ້ສັງລວມຂໍ້ມູນ: UNCCD PRAIS
• 09/17/2010 11:07 a.m.

The best practice was the ecological restoration of natural habitats from rainfed croplands in the protected area of the mud volcanos of Macalube d'Aragona (Sicily). The practice consisted of the plantation of authoctonous plant species that are very relevant for local biodiversity such as Lygeum spartum and the protection of …

• ຜູ້ສັງລວມຂໍ້ມູນ: UNCCD PRAIS
• 09/17/2010 11:07 a.m.

This is done islandwide (2.67 million people) with mixed land uses in a tropical maritime condition with significant elevated topography and steep slopes. Population is a lower middle income economy (UNDP-HDI) with a current GDP per capita of approx. US$3000.

• ຜູ້ສັງລວມຂໍ້ມູນ: UNCCD PRAIS
• 07/13/2010 2:44 p.m.