SLM Database

An improved dairy shed in Bhutan is characterized by concrete floors, cement pillars and troughs, enough sunlight and ventilation, adequate water, ample space for cattle movement, as well as urine and dung collection gutters and a farmyard manure collection area.

• Compiler: Tshering Yangzom
• 08/23/2023 7:42 a.m.

Split Ranch Grazing involves grazing half the available area for a full year - concentrating livestock. The consequent grazing pressure maintains the grassland in an immature, high-quality state, while resting the other half, allowing optimal recovery from the previous full years grazing. The technology is simple, requiring less fencing than …

• Compiler: Richard Fynn
• 10/16/2017 3:43 p.m.

A modern hydraulic complex in the centre of the Sahelian region of Burkina Faso for watering livestock in the dry season.

• Compiler: Nouhoun Zampaligré
• 07/21/2017 4:39 p.m.

A special tractor-pulled plow that constructs micro-catchments. It combines the traditional techniques of rainwater harvesting with mechanization for large scale land rehabilitation.

• Compiler: Sabina Galli Vallerani
• 05/03/2012 2:20 p.m.

Alliance farming refers to collaboration between crop farmers and pastoralists, who agree to use the same land and related resources (crop residues as fodder for pastoralists; dung as fertilizer for crop farmers) for their mutual benefit.

• Compiler: Blasius Azuhnwi
• 01/11/2018 12:48 p.m.

Securing the mobility of pastoralism through access to water sources (open wells and ponds in pastoral areas) and marking the livestock routes for transhumance: the case of the project Almy Al Afia in Chad and its consultative approach.

• Compiler: Bonnet Bernard
• 01/18/2018 8:41 a.m.

Sistema silvopastoril conformado por una matriz de pasto (Brachiaria sp.) con arboles fijadores de nitrógeno (Leucaena leucocephala) delimitado por cerca viva de piñon (xxxx). Contribuye a incrementar la productividad ganadera y reducir la degradación del suelo.

• Compiler: Luisa F. Vega
• 07/06/2018 4:09 a.m.

Monibac® is a liquid biofertilizer based on the co-inoculation of strains of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (Azotobacter chroococcum AC1 and AC10), capable of promoting crop growth while reducing the application of conventional nitrogen fertilizers. The mixture of these microorganisms facilitates the process of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and promotes plant development through the …

• Compiler: Claudia Patricia Rendón Ocampo
• 03/15/2021 5:29 a.m.

Technical recommendations for the improvement of pastures in the Colombian Orinoquia based on the recovery or renovation of the grasslands through different tillage techniques, fertilization and the addition of leguminous plants.

• Compiler: Claudia Patricia Rendón Ocampo
• 03/17/2021 11:08 p.m.

Banco de forrajes

• Compiler: Andrea Carrera
• 05/11/2015 9:23 p.m.