SLM Database

Gully erosion management is the application of combination of practices to control excess or concentrated runoff generation in the gully upstream catchment area, divert excess runoff upstream of gully heads and control further development of gully using appropriate structural and vegetative measures in the head, bed and sides of the …

• Compilador/a: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 08/05/2014 10:06

Closure of degraded land is made on land that has lost vegetation cover, has low soil fertility . To speed up the regeneration process applying some SWC activities and enrichment plantation will be necessary.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 16/02/2011 11:41

Stone walls placed downslope in an inclined manner having embankment of soil on upstream along the contour line having tieridge.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 20/02/2011 16:51

It is an integrated land husbandary practice aimed at improving farm productivity of a household through the sustainable land resources development

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 26/02/2011 14:44

it is an embankment of soil constructed along the contour on crop lands

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 29/05/2011 18:27

A structural measure constructed by stone/soil/wood acrross the gully to control erosion and create favourble condition for crop cultivation.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 29/05/2011 21:44

It is a raised wall constructed across a stream/gully using stone, concrete and/or gabion for dual purpose, namely, to pond/store the stream flow behind it for irrigation purpose while at the same time reducing the runoff velocity and enhancing gully rehabilitation.

• Compilador/a: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/11/2012 16:13

These consist of stone embankments built in the shape of a semi circle with the tips of the bund on the contour and are arranged in staggered orientation in rows so that overflow from one row will run into the next downslope.

• Compilador/a: Eyasu Yazew
• 11/11/2012 12:07

Compacted soil bund constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on the up-slope side.

• Compilador/a: Eyasu Yazew
• 10/11/2012 19:48

It is a barrier of stone/wood/earth placed across a gully to control runoff and sediment passing through.

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 02/06/2011 15:02