SLM Database

Oasis gardens in Niger for crop, vegetable and fruit production are supplied with irrigation water from traditional wells.

• Compilador/a: Soumaila Abdoulaye
• 30/09/2010 11:24

Les murets servent à casser la vitesse de ruissellement en favorisant l'infiltration et le dépôt de terres en amont des ouvrages sur versants dénudés à sols caillouteux.

• Compilador/a: Charles Bielders
• 08/06/2011 21:55

Zai planting pits are designed to collect rainwater and to conserve nutrients in order to improve crop production and food security.

• Compilador/a: Dieter Nill
• 25/09/2014 08:00

Rehabilitation of degraded land through manured planting pits, in combination with contour stone lines. The planting pits are used for millet and sorghum production on gentle slopes.

• Compilador/a: Charles Bielders
• 07/06/2011 19:40

Nardi/Vallerani trenches are microcatchments which are made using a special tractor-pulled plough to restore degraded and encrusted forests and rangelands

• Compilador/a: Dieter Nill
• 25/09/2014 07:54

Alignement de pierres selon les courbes de niveau.

• Compilador/a: Hans Sagebiel
• 07/06/2011 19:24

Hand-dug trenches contribute to the restoration of tree cover and prevention of water erosion on slopes.

• Compilador/a: Dieter Nill
• 25/09/2014 07:57

A small constructed wetland is a combination of ponds and vegetation filters, designed mainly to remove sediment and nutrients from streams. It is usually located in first and second order streams in agricultural landscapes.

• Compilador/a: Dominika Krzeminska
• 22/06/2021 11:54

Grassed waterways are shallow channels (natural or constructed) with grass cover, used to drain surface runoff from cropland and prevent erosion.

• Compilador/a: Dominika Krzeminska
• 07/02/2022 21:31

Reduced tillage, involving no plowing in the autumn, preserves stubble or plant cover during the autumn and winter to prevent soil erosion, and particle and nutrient loss from cropland to watercourses.

• Compilador/a: Kamilla Skaalsveen
• 14/08/2014 13:47