Project document

I) Sustainable soil management: the BPs presented here are focused on control of erosion processes and improvement of soil quality/structure. It is recommended the integrated implementation (soil intervention strategy) to guarantee reduction of soil loss reduction, water retention and infiltration and soil seed bank maintenance, regenerating productive capacity of the intervention area and enabling rain feed agriculture ( dry farming, etc). Most of these practices are related to sustainable water management due their application in water basin context (water production).

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  Palisades (for moderated erosion/land degradation processes – f.ex. gullies)
  
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  Dry Stone dams/Sucessive dams/Zero-base dams (for accentuated and severe erosion processes – rill erosion, and to ensure water flow and conservation, making new agro-productive plateaus in a water sheet management strategy);
  
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  Contour curves and stone contour (renque de pedra) (avoid laminar erosion and improve water infiltration process, improving agro-productive plateaus in a water sheet management strategy);
  
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  Water diversion device (avoid soil erosion that could affect rural roads, comprising community access);
  
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  Cultivation of Atriplex sp. (to revert soil salinization process in areas under misuse of irrigation techniques, livestock fodder).