Agroforestry plot on formerly denuded land in a highly arid environment
Rehabilitation of poor soils through agroforestry [Tajikistan] [technologies]


An agroforestry system with peach, plum, sweet cherry and persimmon trees was established on a plot of land, with poor soil quality.
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👤 Compiler: Natalia Mityakova
🕒 Created: 2011-04-26 11:50
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:08
Planting of fruit trees on a steep slope above the village settlement.
Planting of fruit trees to increase slope stabilisation [Tajikistan] [technologies]


Planting fruit tree orchards to increase the stability of the steep loess soil slopes.
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👤 Compiler: Gulniso Nekushoeva
🕒 Created: 2011-03-16 06:23
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:06
Overview of a SWC field and next to it, degraded pasture and a haymaking field. Similar gullies and rills were on the cropland as well, prior to establishment of the orchard
Orchard-based Agroforestry (establishment of orchard) [Tajikistan] [technologies]


Establishment of an orchard intercropping system on severely degraded cropland.
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👤 Compiler: Erik Bühlmann
🕒 Created: 2011-03-08 13:18
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:03
Intercropping of wheat in an existing apricot orchard
Orchard-based Agroforestry (intercropping) [Tajikistan] [technologies]


Intercropping of wheat in an existing orchard that was established during the Soviet period.
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👤 Compiler: Erik Bühlmann
🕒 Created: 2011-03-08 13:59
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:02
Narrow terraces, each with a water retention ditch, for fruit trees (note grape vine in the foreground).
Conversion of grazing land to fruit and fodder plots [Tajikistan] [technologies]


Fencing part of an overgrazed hillside, combined with terracing, manuring and supplementary irrigation for grape, fruit and grass production.
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👤 Compiler: Loes Masselink
🕒 Created: 2011-01-18 08:09
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:01
Typical examples of apple trees intercropped with wheat. Alignment of the trees is often a compromise between wind direction, slope and shape of plot.
Orchard-based agroforestry [Tajikistan] [technologies]


An agroforestry system where legumes and cereals are planted in fruit orchards, giving simultaneous production and conservation benefits.
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👤 Compiler: Loes Masselink
🕒 Created: 2011-01-17 06:08
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 15:00
Hedgerow plot
Contour hedgerows of alfalfa in annual cropland [Afghanistan] [technologies]


Hedgerows are vegetative strips of perennial grasses, shrubs or legumes - such as alfalfa - located along contours across a slope. These vegetative strips form a barrier to halt soil erosion and impro...
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👤 Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
🕒 Created: 2016-10-27 21:36
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 12:40
Rehabilitated gully with a check dam and tree planting
Gully treatment [Afghanistan] [technologies]


Small check dams made of stone, together with planting of trees, slow water flow and reduce further erosion in a gully, leading to its restoration.
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👤 Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
🕒 Created: 2016-08-13 14:53
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-02 11:26
Rotational grazing to restore degraded pastures [Afghanistan] [technologies]


A plan for rotational grazing has been developed to control pasture use and prevent overgrazing of rehabilitated pastures.
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👤 Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
🕒 Created: 2016-10-27 21:40
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-01 16:24
Reforestation site
Afforestation for firewood production [Afghanistan] [technologies]


Non-fruit and fruit trees are planted on heavily degraded forest land to protect the land from erosion and further degradation and provide fuelwood for the local community.
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👤 Compiler: Bettina Wolfgramm
🕒 Created: 2016-10-27 21:27
🔄 Updated: 2021-11-01 15:36