SLM Database

Rehabilitation of communal grazing lands, through planting of improved grass and fodder trees and land subdivision, to improve fodder and consequently livestock production.

• Compilador/a: Daniel Danano
• 29/05/2011 21:18

A hillside terrace is a structure along the contour, where a strip of land is levelled for tree planting.

• Compilador/a: Hans Hurni
• 13/02/2011 12:20

Multiple cropping is an agronomic practice of growing two or more crops on the same land simultaneously in a given growing season

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 14/02/2011 14:28

It is an allignment of stones embankment at the lower/downslope of the trench dug to form earth embankment following a contour.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 24/02/2011 09:38

Stone wall check dams are built across a gully to collect alluvial soil and hinder further gully erosion.

• Compilador/a: Simon Bach
• 19/10/2011 16:57

Stone faced embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 02/06/2011 12:27

It is constructed along the contour to minimize soil erosion and prevent runoff damage from down stream fields.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 02/06/2011 11:49

Desho grass strip is a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for animals.

• Compilador/a: Daniel Danano
• 30/05/2011 16:20

It is a stone wall built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop production.

• Compilador/a: Daniel Danano
• 30/05/2011 13:25

Vegetated graded soil bund is a soil conservation practice meant for cultivated lands and constructed by excavating graded channel on upper side and develop embankment on lower side which is planted with grass or shrub species in order to control soil erosion and drain excess runoff implemented through community mobilization.

• Compilador/a: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 12/05/2014 13:28