SLM Database

The mobile seed cleaning machine improves the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Tunisia by significantly enhancing seed quality, increasing crop production, reducing workload and costs, and promoting local value chains and social cohesion.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 03/02/2023 11:35 vm.

La consolidation biologique des banquettes est une technique culturale qui consiste à la plantation des banquettes par les espèces arboricoles, pastorales, ou fourragères. Cette opération permet d’accroître l’efficacité et la durabilité de ces ouvrages.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 03/06/2023 9:42 nm.

Compressing agro-industrial by-products produces nutrient-dense livestock feed pellets that can compete with expensive and imported alternatives. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor or "pelletizer" and formulae to create feed pellets of sufficient quality with locally available inputs.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 10/26/2022 2:43 nm.

The technology utilizes a drought-tolerant native forage legume, Hedysarium coronarium, to restore degraded soils by covering the soil, fixing nitrogen, improving biodiversity and increasing water infiltration while fodder quality and availability is improved.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 06/02/2021 4:11 nm.

This technology is based on the natural advantages and the multi-purpose usage of spineless cactus pear (Opuntia fiscus-indica), to cultivate marginal lands in central Tunisia, generating environmental and socio-economic benefits.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 09/08/2021 11:28 vm.

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a "ready-to-scale concept" in agriculture that allows a sustainable agricultural production and mitigation of climate change. The documented CA focuses on a dryland mixed system, including a biennial rotation of legume and cereals with integrated livestock management. CA has positive benefits on soil health and significantly …

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 10/12/2020 1:34 nm.

Le compostage est un procédé de décomposition des déchets organiques fermentescibles par des micro-organismes dans des conditions controlées.

• Compiler: Donia Mühlematter
• 05/16/2018 7:12 nm.

Jessour is an ancient runoff water harvesting technique widely practiced in the arid highlands

• Compiler: Mongi Ben Zaied
• 03/03/2011 8:02 nm.

The tabia earthen dyke is a water harvesting technique used in the foothill and piedmont areas.

• Compiler: Mongi Ben Zaied
• 03/03/2011 2:30 nm.

The technology of check dam is a technique consisting of binding different gabion cages filled with small stones together to form a complete flexible gabion unit.

• Compiler: Mongi Ben Zaied
• 03/03/2011 3:20 nm.