SLM Database

A Farmer Field School (FFS) is a community-based practically-oriented field study programme.

• Compiler: Philippe Zahner
• 02/14/2011 middernag

Water harvesting for agricultural production in ASALS.

• Compiler: Philippe Zahner
• 01/19/2009 middernag

Yield and income improvements by better soil moisture conservation and reduced labour costs resulting from individual initiative

• Compiler: Kithinji Mutunga
• 01/20/2009 middernag

The PFI approach seeks to build on technical initiatives - innovation in the local context - developed by farmers themselves in dry/marginal areas where the conventional approach of transfer of technology from research to extension agents and then on to farmers has so often failed.

• Compiler: William Critchley
• 01/20/2009 middernag

Community based water resource development

• Compiler: Donald B. Thomas
• 01/20/2009 middernag

group approach where women groups are visited by local specialists for on-farm demonstrations on use of double dug beds

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 01/20/2009 middernag

Giving cash incentives to farmers for them to undertake soil and water conservation

• Compiler: Boniface, Mutegi Birichi
• 01/20/2009 middernag

A focused approach to integrated land and water management, including soil and water conservation, where the active participation of the villagers - often organised through common interest groups - is central.

• Compiler: Deborah Niggli
• 05/12/2016 4:12 nm.

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.

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.