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.

• 编制者： Daniel Danano
• 05/29/2011 9:18 p.m.

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

• 编制者： Hans Hurni
• 02/13/2011 12:20 p.m.

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

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 02/14/2011 2:28 p.m.

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

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 02/24/2011 9:38 a.m.

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

• 编制者： Simon Bach
• 10/19/2011 4:57 p.m.

Stone faced embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 12:27 p.m.

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

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:49 a.m.

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

• 编制者： Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 4:20 p.m.

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

• 编制者： Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 1:25 p.m.

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.

• 编制者： Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/12/2014 1:28 p.m.