SLM Database

Promoting mucuna seed processing for food and nutrition security and income generation encourages women farmers to plant mucuna as a cover crop that improves soil productivity.

• Compiler: William Akwanyi
• 03/14/2023 4:28 vm.

Promoting the values of different trees and their benefits in agroforestry contributes to increased adoption by farmers.

• Compiler: William Akwanyi
• 03/20/2023 10:04 vm.

Community Resource Persons (CRP) form a farmer-to-farmer learning approach that bridges the gap in agricultural extension, increases farmers' access to agricultural information (SLM knowledge), and increases the adoption of SLM practices.

• Compiler: William Akwanyi
• 03/15/2023 2:31 nm.

Improving farmers' access to minimum tillage tools is an approach to increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) through linking them to institutions that fabricate the tools.

• Compiler: William Akwanyi
• 04/27/2023 6:45 vm.

The Regreening Africa project identifies key individuals within the community who are then trained on land restoration through beekeeping. Through this "training of trainers" approach the trainees then train others.

• Compiler: Grace Koech
• 01/23/2023 5:59 vm.

The establishment of a community wildlife conservancy facilitates (1) 'holistic rangeland management' refering to a to the implementation of a suite of management practices aimed at sustaining and/or improving rangeland productivity such as 'bunched grazing' (livestock concentrated for short duration intensive grazing), short-term 'bomas' (livestock corrals occupied for ~7 days), …

• Compiler: Harry Wells
• 02/19/2018 7:04 vm.

Selected livestock are bought from the communities, then fattened and marketed by the Mugie conservancy management on a ‘resource sharing’ basis – generating income for both the conservancy and the community. This encourages the development of local value chains and market-based incentives for better rangeland management and animal husbandry outside …

• Compiler: Peter Tyrrell
• 03/02/2018 8:29 vm.