A soil and water conservation and pasture management technology implemented through area closure, fencing, and installation of check dams to control erosion and rehabilitate degraded rangelands.

Compiler:

salad ali

First published:

2026-04-26 11:02

The micro half-moon catchment (Bila Bilo) of Beyra is a soil and water conservation technology that harvests runoff, reduces erosion, and improves water infiltration in dryland areas. By capturing sediments and retaining soil moisture, it creates fertile micro-sites that support vegetation regeneration, land restoration, and climate change adaptation.

Compiler:

Faruq Dahir

First published:

2026-04-26 11:02

Participatory Net Planning (PNP) is a practical methodology that actively engages landowners and local stakeholders in planning and implementing measures for land use, soil conservation, water harvesting, and biomass development. It aims to regenerate ecosystems and improve the sustainability of watersheds through site-specific resource management. PNP emphasizes the conservation, productivity enhancement, and sustainable use of natural and biological resources. It involves assessing the current condition and use of land, water, and vegetation, and preparing detailed plans—with estimated costs and timelines—to achieve the desired outcomes. In Participatory Net Planning (PNP), the term “Net” represents a complete and interconnected planning framework where every land parcel within a watershed is individually assessed and linked to the larger watershed system. It highlights a network-based approach that integrates soil, water, vegetation, and community needs, ensuring that interventions on one farm support resource conservation and productivity across neighboring and downstream lands. Overall, it signifies a holistic and coordinated system where all stakeholders and resources are planned collectively for sustainable and long-term watershed management.

Compiler:

Arun Bhagat

First published:

2025-12-06 16:34

The Capacity Building Process for Participatory Watershed Development is a structured approach to strengthen the technical, managerial, and social skills of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Partner Implementation Agencies (PIAs), and Village-level Institutions (VIs). It includes orientation, training, participatory tools, mentoring, exposure visits, monitoring, and institutionalization. The process enhances competencies, fosters creativity and confidence, promotes community ownership, and ensures effective, sustainable planning, implementation, and management of watershed-based natural resource management and climate-resilient interventions.

Compiler:

Arun Bhagat

First published:

2025-11-21 17:54

The Agroforestry system in Malistan district combines traditional practices with support from the Community-Based Sustainable Land and Forest Management project in Afghanistan. This initiative provides technical support, training, and resources like apple trees, fertilizers, and alfalfa seeds to establish 400 orchards (1,000 m² each). The goal is to enhance community livelihoods by reducing dependence on rangelands, helping to preserve local ecosystems.

Compiler:

Ahmad Zia Jalalzai

First published:

2025-11-04 09:08

The project “Scaling up experiential learning tools for sustainable water governance in India” aimed at enhancing sustainable water management at scale by improving the capacities of 1,500 rural communities covering 105,000 households directly and 2,000 communities covering 140,000 households indirectly in six Indian states to manage water more sustainably. This was achieved through experiential learning from collective action games, structured community debriefings, and participatory water planning tools that contribute to greater awareness and improved governance, inducing behavioural change toward more sustainable water governance and management. The work was jointly conducted by the Foundation for Ecological Security, India (FES), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

Compiler:

Vishwambhar Duche

First published:

2025-03-26 23:13

The technology of watering through furrow reduces the settlement (recommended) sizes of irrigating norms up to 30% keeps soil fertility

Compiler:

Unknown User

First published:

2017-05-26 11:32

Watering through furrow

Compiler:

Unknown User

First published:

2017-07-17 15:39

Increase of use effectiveness of limited resources of soil moisture in desert with sowing xerophyte fodder plants

Compiler:

Irina Skorintseva

First published:

2017-07-17 17:38

Cross-wadi structures are built from local stone to slow the flow of runoff. These water harvesting walls reduce the severity of storm flow, causing sedimentation and a rise in the water table level. Productive trees can be planted as a result.

Compiler:

Abdalhaleem Hassaballa

First published:

2026-04-23 08:17

CoDriVE-VI is a participatory approach that integrates local knowledge with scientific data through 3D visual modelling to assess groundwater vulnerability and support sustainable, community-based groundwater management. It overlays surface and subsurface features, enabling villagers to visualize aquifer systems and develop informed water use plans.

Compiler:

Pratik Ramteke

First published:

2025-06-16 09:27

A trench is a shallow excavation made in the ground to harvest rainwater, control runoff flow, reduce soil erosion, and improve soil moisture retention. Trenches are typically surveyed and designed based on the slope, soil type, and rainfall patterns of the area where they are implemented.

Compiler:

Koetlisi Koetlisi

First published:

2025-06-02 10:53

The technology integrates off-grid soil-less cultivation within a net house, utilizing solar-powered root zone cooling and ultra-low energy irrigation, thus significantly enhancing water and energy efficiency for sustainable agriculture in arid regions. This innovation is a key contribution within the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, addressing the unique challenges of food production in the Middle East.

Compiler:

Joren Verbist

First published:

2024-12-01 09:19

Forests in headwater areas benefit water quality and hydrologic cycling. Furthermore, maintaining and restoring the forest cover in headwater catchments offers other, multiple benefits such as increased soil water retention, intercepted pollution pathways, improved soil, maintained biodiversity and captured carbon dioxide.

Compiler:

Marie Anne Eurie Forio

First published:

2024-09-15 09:08

Fish farming supported by availability of water is considered as profitable enterprise in Northern Uganda. Farmers use areas with either high water tables or swamps to locate the ground water recharged fish ponds and water for fish production and crop irrigation during the dry season.

Compiler:

Kamugisha Rick Nelson

First published:

2018-08-21 14:45

Low-cost plastic-lined water harvesting ponds collect and store rain and overland flow water for agricultural and domestic purposes in the dry season. They are both economic and efficient.

Compiler:

Nima Dolma Tamang

First published:

2024-03-26 12:22

This approach compensates land users annually for taking care of a water source and its surroundings. The source is being looked after by two groups of environmental service providers and water is supplied to seven gewogs and Damphu Municipality in the Tsirang Dzongkhag.

Compiler:

Tshering Yangzom

First published:

2024-01-25 09:24

Retention ditches are channels aligned along the contour which are designed for surface runoff management. They improve water infiltration into the ground and prevent soil erosion.

Compiler:

William Akwanyi

First published:

2023-07-10 11:03

Water Spreading Weirs are designed to protect the degradation of agricultural fields and rangelands. They contribute to soil and water conservation and enhance the productive use of dry valleys for food crops and livestock fodder production via the harvest and spread of runoff water and fertile soils.

Compiler:

GERBA LETA

First published:

2023-04-27 18:23

The Land Development Department has promoted lowering of saline groundwater table in recharge areas since 2014. The approach used is through: (1) Public relations and information spreading; (2) Planning demonstration sites; (3) Selection of farmers interested in participating in the project; (4) Providing knowledge and advice to those farmers participating in the project; (5) The preparation of demonstration plots, with shallow wells, in farmers' land.

Compiler:

Saowanee Prachansri

First published:

2024-04-04 14:20

use the stones to build walls around agricultural terraces to protect them from erosion and make outlets (Spillway) to discharge excess water and prevent the destruction of the stands

Compiler:

ahmed algalal

First published:

2017-06-24 14:12

Floating vegetable garden as a climate change adaptation strategy for the indigenous communities living in the wetland of Agusan del Sur to grow vegetables during the flooding season.

Compiler:

Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

First published:

2024-02-27 09:43

Water source protection involves protecting lakes, rivers, springs, or man-made reservoirs to avoid water pollution and damage by livestock and wild animals. In the past, the emphasis was on fencing and improving vegetation cover at the discharge point itself, but a recent focus is on groundwater recharge areas.

Compiler:

ONGPO LEPCHA

First published:

2024-02-28 17:37

A grassed waterway is a strip of grass and other permanent low growing vegetation that is established along in the main drainage line (the thalweg) of an agricultural field to discharge water safely and prevent gully development.

Compiler:

Felix Witing

First published:

2023-08-15 08:54

Microcatchment water harvesting captures, stores and allows safe overflow of excess surface runoff collected during heavy rainfall events. The intercepted and deep-infiltrated water enhances soil moisture at/around the microcatchment structure. This eventually boosts plant productivity in dry areas, mitigates land degradation, and benefits the local farming communities’ livelihoods

Compiler:

Joren Verbist

First published:

2023-05-25 12:11

Sediment capture ponds are constructed and located along networks of ditches which drain watersheds. They slow the velocity of water and cause the deposition of suspended materials. These ponds help to avoid sediment accumulation in the ditches themselves, and can decrease sediment and nutrient pollution of surface water bodies downstream.

Compiler:

Brigitta Szabó

First published:

2023-04-24 11:13

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

Compiler:

Dominika Krzeminska

First published:

2022-06-27 18:20

Grass buffer zones are established along waterways in cropland to reduce the surface runoff rate, and the amounts of sediment, nutrients and pesticides in the runoff.

Compiler:

Kamilla Skaalsveen

First published:

2017-03-16 09:56

The technology promotes the lifting of river water by pump sets and conveys the water through buried pipelines to a canal. The conserved canal water is used for irrigation delivered by low lift pumps (LLP). Because water is held in the canal it revitalises the ecosystem along its length. Furthermore, using river water for irrigation avoids dangers associated with groundwater depletion.

Compiler:

Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib

First published:

2022-12-19 17:28

Pumping groundwater from shallow wells for agriculture can control the groundwater table in recharge areas. It helps to manage saline aquifers and reduce soil salinity. Such shallow wells range from 25 to 30 meters deep. This technology is very well-accepted by the land users.

Compiler:

Kaewjai Oechaiyaphum

First published:

2022-12-05 09:32

The aim of this technology is to use the waterlogged soils, which remain under water during 6 to 7 months of a year, for vegetable seedlings. This is done through floating seed beds which are made of water hyacinths.

Compiler:

Naznin Imrana

First published:

2022-11-18 11:15

Fish farming, commonly referred to as aquaculture, is one of the common practices promoted by small, medium and large scale farmers in Amuru District, Northern Uganda. Labour, hoes, wheelbarrows, spades and slashers are used for establishment. The technology is established on a gently sloping physical environment located mainly at the valley bottom for purposes of obtaining food security and household income.

Compiler:

betty adoch

First published:

2022-11-02 10:00

Spring ground water reservoir to supply water for the fish pond during dry season to be harvested throughout the year.

Compiler:

betty adoch

First published:

2022-10-24 13:10

CF basins are constructed in the field to act as water storage containers. Water is conserved within the basins and plants can survive with this conserved water during periods of little rainfall and dry spells.

Compiler:

Sunday Balla Amale

First published:

2020-04-16 13:52

Construction of earth dams to provide stock water

Compiler:

Jannie Nel

First published:

2017-04-14 13:57

Integration of a cement pan and collection well system for water harvesting and a trough serving as a livestock water point.

Compiler:

Ioannis Daliakopoulos

First published:

2017-03-14 10:49

Water-spreading weirs are structures that span the entire width of a valley to spread floodwater over the adjacent land area.

Compiler:

Unknown User

First published:

2017-04-18 14:22

Introduction of sustainable water usage to prevent impacts of seasonal droughts in Barind region, Bangladesh

Compiler:

Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib

First published:

2021-12-20 12:34

Trenches commonly referred to as contour trenches and running perpendicular to a slope increase water infiltration and reduce soil erosion as a way of conserving soil.

Compiler:

Sarah Babirye

First published:

2022-01-03 10:14

Relying on integrated watershed management principles, farmers were assisted by the project to implement soil and water conservation measures in a microwatershed.

Compiler:

Manuchehr Rakhmatdzhonov

First published:

2017-07-06 15:31