List of Technologies and Approaches in Ethiopia,documented in WOCAT database
It is an approach
based on labour exchange organized on the basis of mutual assistance involving
no payment for work done. However, the land user is supposed to provide people
participating with food and drinks. All wanting such cooperation request the me
APPROACHES
food-for-work
programm with distribution of grains and oil
- Compiler: Sabina
ErnyAPPROACHES
LLPPA is community
involved participatory planning for integrated and sustainable development
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
It is a local level
participatory planning approach.
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Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
LLPPA
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerOACHES
Farmer-Research-Extension
Group (FREG) is a grass root level platform aims to bridge gaps on agricultural
technology transfer between research and extension linkage and provide a
platform of 20-30 members from research, extension and farmer for their joint
learning and active participatory role in agricultural technology evaluation
and dessimination.
- Compiler: Gizaw
Desta GessesseOLOGIES
Runoff/flood farming
locally known as Korbe is a practice that involves diversion of water from
different sources for growing vegetables, fruit trees and crops of high value
on a land prepared known as Korbe.
- Compiler: Daniel
Danano
NOLOGIES
It is an embankment
of soil with no gradient along the contour and stablized with grasses,
tree/shrub plant species.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
Stablized bund
constructed fron stone and soils on the farm land along the contour and planted
with multipurposive plant species
- Compiler:
Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
Earth embankment
formed by digging a channel and pile the soil to form a ridge on which potato
is planted.
- Compiler: Daniel
Danano
Closing the degraded
land to let it to regenerate by excluding human and animal interference ans
speed up the regeneration process by applying some SWC activities and undertake
enrichment plantation.
- Compiler:
Unknown User
A terrace constructed
along the contour with the embankment above the basin to prevent/control or
reduce runoff.
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Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
Closing the degraded
land in order to provide enough time to regenerate by excluding from human and
animal interferance.
- Compiler:
Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
Construction of
stones walls along the contour with trenches on the upper side of the structure
while the upper part of the structure filled with soil and compacted.
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Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
It is a rectangular
shaped soil embankment created in digging up sol and farming ridge and a basin
for harvesting moisture.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
Agronomic/structural
measure using straw of maize and/or sorghum.
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Unknown UserAPPROACHES
Participatory
planning tools using various PRA techniques to enable the local community to
identif their problem prioritize to sellect suitable measures & activities
(planing, implementing & mgt of conservation based initiatives.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
It is FFW based
participatory approach, by which the land users takes part in all stages of
conservation planning, implementation evaluation.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
Food for work is an
incentive given to land users for the activities they perform by participating
in land management activities.
- Compiler: Daniel
Danano
Mass Mobilization is
an approach pursued to implement SLM technologies by organizing land users to
undertake SLM activities without incentives being involved.
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Unknown User
Cut and carry grazing
system (alternatively called zero grazing) is an approach where the community
is consulted to identify and agree on areas to be closed and protected from
free grazing; establish user groups are established to share the fodder biomass
harvested from communal closed areas equitably; they utilize tree/shrub ...
- Compiler:
Gizaw Desta Gessesse3
TECHNOLOGIES
Enclosing and
protecting an area of degraded land from human use and animal interference, to
permit natural rehabilitation, enhanced by additional vegetative and structural
conservation measures.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
It is a technique
which increases the productivity of grasslands per unit area through activities
of soding and direct sawing of grass species.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
Trashlines are
constructed as a barrier of runoff, soil erosion using maize, sorghum and teff
straw/stalk
- Compiler:
Daniel Danano DaleTECHNOLOGIES
Microcatchments and
ponds are water harvesting measures used to collect stored and spread over an
area to increase soil moisture and ground water level.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
graded ditch out of
soil and stones to protect the fields below from water runoff
- Compiler:
Sabina ErnyTECHNOLOGIES
Stone faced soil bund
is an embankemt constructed along the contour by the use of stone and soil as a
construction material.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
It is a mechanical
conservation measure where a basin and a ridge are formed for planting chat
along a contour
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Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
Earh-checks are
constructed of earth embankment put across in a deep gully in such a way to
trap sediment and store water passing by it.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
Stone bund is an enbankment
of stone constructed acrros the slope following the contour.
- Compiler:
Unknown User
It is a stone wall
embankment along the contour with land leveling in between two terrace walls to
control erosion.
- Compiler:
Daniel Danano2
TECHNOLOGIES
stone terrace more or
less along the contour, combined with artificial waterways and traditional
ditches to drain excess water, and heightened field borders
- Compiler: Eva
Ludi
TECHNOLOGIES
Area closure on
degraded lands is a land management practice used to rehabilitate and conserve
the natural resource bases, and enhance its natural regeneration and restoring
capacity and productive functions by excluding animal and human interferences
through community consultation and collective actions.
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Gizaw Desta GessesseAPPROACHES
The approach
involves, the use of incentives to motivate particpation of communities in the
planning and implementation of SWC activities which improve land productivity
and income.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
Integrated watershed
management is implementation of SWC measures, forage development and crop
production activitiesthrough increasing production and productivity per unit
area of land on suistainable manner.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoAPPROACHES
All participants that
way and means used to promote and implement sWC Technology Support more
sustainable.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerTECHNOLOGIES
Stone faced terraces
are commonly constructed on cultivated lands. These are structural measural
measures placed along the contour to control soil erosion and trap runoff.
- Compiler: Daniel
Danano
It is a barrier of
stone/wood/earth placed across a gully to control runoff and sediment passing
through.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
Compacted soil bund
constructed following a contour using a soil excavated from deep trenches on
the up-slope side.
- Compiler:
Eyasu YazewEN
NOLOGIES
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.
- Compiler:
Eyasu Yazew
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.
- Compiler:
Eyasu YazewTECHNOLOGIES
A structural measure
constructed by stone/soil/wood acrross the gully to control erosion and create
favourble condition for crop cultivation.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
it is an embankment
of soil constructed along the contour on crop lands
- Compiler:
Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
It is an integrated
land husbandary practice aimed at improving farm productivity of a household
through the sustainable land resources development
- Compiler:
Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
Stone walls placed
downslope in an inclined manner having embankment of soil on upstream along the
contour line having tieridge.
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Unknown UserEN
ECHNOLOGIES
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.
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Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
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 ...
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Gizaw Desta GessessTECHNOLOGIES
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.
- Compiler:
Gizaw Desta GessesseAPPROACHES
An approach used by
field staff to implement conservation activities, involving farmers in all
stages of planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoAPPROACHES
Negotiation with the
stakeholder community of a catchment on social incentives to be offered by
external agency in exchange of additional inputs by the communty to be invested
into soil and water conservation measures.
- Compiler:
Hans Hurni
It is food for work
based participatory approach, by which the land users takes part in all stages
of conservation planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
Debo is a 'labour
share', grouping of land users in a community. It is a social / traditional
co-operation/ where land users support each other by working in groups for
activities which are labour intensive.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
A household and the
family members work on SLM measures to manage their land without external
support.
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
LLPPA is an approach
at the local level participatory planing approach that involves community
participation at all level.
- Compiler:
Philippe Zahner
Pastoralist field
schools improve livelihoods and resilience of pastoral communities through a
process of hands-on experimental and participatory learning. They are
"schools without walls" that introduce good agricultural and
marketing practices while building on local knowledge. The PFS approach builds
heavily on the basic principles of discovery based learning to ...
- Compiler:
Giacomo de' BesiTECHNOLOGIES
It is a stone wall
built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop
production.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
Desho grass strip is
a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for
animals.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
It is constructed
along the contour to minimize soil erosion and prevent runoff damage from down
stream fields.
- Compiler:
Unknown User
Stone faced
embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss
- Compiler:
Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
Stone wall check dams
are built across a gully to collect alluvial soil and hinder further gully
erosion.
- Compiler:
Simon Bach
It is an allignment
of stones embankment at the lower/downslope of the trench dug to form earth
embankment following a contour.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
Multiple cropping is
an agronomic practice of growing two or more crops on the same land
simultaneously in a given growing season
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Unknown UserEN
TECHNOLOGIES
A hillside terrace is
a structure along the contour, where a strip of land is levelled for tree
planting.
- Compiler:
Hans HurniAPPROACHES
The participation of
the communities in the planning implementation and evaluation of SWC activities
and provided with food for work as an insentive to encourage participation.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoAPPROACHES
Local level
particpatpry planning approach
- Compiler:
Philippe ZahnerAPPROACHES
Self help
- Compiler: Philippe
Zahner
PPROACHES
Community
mobilization for soil and water conservation work in a watershed planning unit
is an approach for collective action by organizing all active labor forces
living in the kebele/peasant association into development group of 20-30
members and further divide into 1:5 work force to implement construction of
soil and water ...
- Compiler: Gizaw
Desta Gessesse4
TECHNOLOGIES
Rehabilitation of
communal grazing lands, through planting of improved grass and fodder trees and
land subdivision, to improve fodder and consequently livestock production.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
level bund with
double stone walls with soil and grass to stabilize the structure
- Compiler:
Sabina Erny
TECHNOLOGIES
It is a structural
measure constructed across the slope to control erosion and increase soil
moisture.
- Compiler: Daniel
Danano
Activities that help
maintain the productive potentials of soils through prevention and reduction of
erosion, enhancing of rehabilitation rate by practicing measures such as
microbasins, trench, eyebrow terrace, terraces, pitting and plantation of
trees.
- Compiler:
Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
It is a structural
measure with an embankment of soil or stones or soil and stones, constructed
along the contour and stablized with vegetative measures (grass and fodder
trees).
Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
TECHNOLOGIES
Soil bund and Fanya
Juu constructed along the contour lines in microwatershed to conserve soil
moisture and control erosion.
- Compiler:
Daniel DananoTECHNOLOGIES
A waterway is an
artficial drainage channel constructed along the steepest slope to receive
runoff from cutoff drains and graded structures and drain to the natural
waterway safely.
- Compiler:
Berhanu FentawEN
TECHNOLOGIES
Gully rehabilitation
and hill stabilization with Jatropha hedges.
- Compiler:
Simon BachTECHNOLOGIES
Stone faced bund is
embankment constructed from stone & soil along the contour at upper part to
reduce velocity of run of & length of slope with collection ditch in the
uper part.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
an embankment of soil
constructed along the contour to reduce runoff and maintain soil moisture.
- Compiler:
Unknown UserTECHNOLOGIES
Structure constructed
by digging a shallow channel on the upper hill side and putting the excavated
soil on the down side to build the embankment
- Compiler:
Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
an allignment of
stone along the contour line which stabilzes with grass species
- Compiler:
Unknown User
TECHNOLOGIES
Teff row planting is
an agronomic practice used to place Teff seeds (very small size) in rows of
about 20cm apart and at predetermined depth with sufficient cover of firm soil.
- Compiler: Gizaw
Desta Gessesse
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