SLM Database

Masonry dam in seasonal watercourse or river that stores water in the sand which accumulates above it.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 10:01 vm.

Pasture management and improvement through weeding comiphora

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 4:20 nm.

The technology is a combination of agricultural (e.g. intercropping, manure/compost/mulching), vegetative (e.g. Napier grass strips, trees planting) and structural (e.g. ditches) measures which aim to maximise the overall land yield in a sustainable manner (e.g. reducing soil erosion and increasing soil quality).

• Compiler: Laura D'Aietti
• 02/27/2013 11:46 nm.

Conservation Agriculture is a concept for resource-saving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environment.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 12:42 nm.

Retention ditches, also called infiltration ditches, are larger ditches designed to catch and retain all incoming runoff for infiltration into the soil.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 1:29 nm.

Rotational grazing is a process whereby livestock are strategically moved to fresh paddocks, or partitioned pasture areas, to allow vegetation in previously grazed pastures to regenerate.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 11:44 vm.

Structural riverbank protection by metal nets called gabion that are filled with stones

• Compiler: Manuel Fischer
• 09/13/2013 12:21 nm.

Mulching is done by covering the soil surface between crop rows, around trees (mostly fruit and orchard) or vegetables with cut grass, crop residues, straw or other plant material in order to retain soil moisture, prevent or suppress weed growth and enhance soil structure.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 9:52 vm.

Artificial grassed waterways are constructed waterways established for transportation of concentrated flow at safe velocities using adequate vegetation.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 10:22 vm.

Fanya juu terraces stabilized with nappier grass and sweet potatoes are earth bunds created by digging a trench along a contour and throwing the soil up slope to form an embankment that is stabilized with nappier grass and during maintenance phase, the accumulated sediments are removed and thrown on the …

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 12:54 nm.