Shelter Belt
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2009-01-28 00:00 Updated: 2017-07-09 16:27
Compilers: Meili WEN
Reviewers: David Streiff
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: China
- Region/ State/ Province: Inner Mongolia
- Map: View Map
Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
The shelter belt is a strip or a row of trees planted in a farmland as a wind barrier to protect crops and reduce wind erosion.
Detailed description of the Approach
Aims / objectives: Overall purposes are improving environment, and then realization sustainable development of agriculture. Specific objectives are decreasing wind erosion of cropland, increasing foodstuff production. When this approach is decided to implement, the first things to be done are to investigate natural and social-economic environment. Then scope and stages of implementation are decided by government with provision of capital and policies. After that, the approach need to propagandize to people who live in the project area. To implement this approach step by step, local government and land users play an very important role in implementation of the approach.
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