SLM Database

Farmer-managed natural regeneration is a low-cost, sustainable land restoration technique involving the re-growth of trees from tree stumps and seedlings in the wild.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/06/2017 2:16 p.m.

Multi-purpose tree species such as Calliandra calothyrsus are planted on farmstead to improve pastures for soil fertility improvement and livestock production

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/19/2017 1:34 p.m.

Growing Improved Pastures (chloris gayana, brachiaria mulato and pernisetum purpurem) is a technology promoted among small, meduim scale farmers in Kyegegwa District, Western Uganda for sustainable dairy production, improved nutrition and sustainable land management.

• Compiler: Jalia Namakula
• 01/26/2018 9:55 a.m.

Goats are stall fed during dry season and open-grazed during rain season. In a semi-intensive system, animals are kept under confinement in which they are stall–fed for some period of time (weeks to months, especially during the dry seasons) followed by another period of open grazing during the rainy seasons.

• Compiler: PRISCILLA VIVIAN KYOSABA
• 01/26/2018 11:39 a.m.

Elephant grass (Pennisteum purpureum) and calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus), are harvested and chopped using a chaff cutter to produce fodder for dairy cows. The chaff is then mixed with cotton seed cake, molasses and maize bran to improve palatability and nutrient quality for dairy cows. The cattle graze in paddocks during …

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 01/31/2018 11:01 a.m.

Stall-fed livestock production is an efficient method to produce organic fertilizers (manure) for the conservation and improvement of soil fertility.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 05/20/2013 8:57 a.m.

Dairy cattle (Friesian) are grazed on indigenous pastures to promotes conservation of the indigenous grass species (guinea grass), which protects the soil against soil erosion and promotes biodiversity.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/19/2017 5:29 p.m.

A mixture of silvopastoral agroforestry approaches, including extensive and rotational cattle grazing around trees, provide benefits for biodiversity as well as leaf fodder for cattle, edible fruits and nuts, and wood fuel.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/14/2022 12:38 p.m.

Use of diverse herbal leys in dairy production. Provides resilient forage that improves soil health and provides a habitat for biodiversity within a rotational grazing system

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 09/03/2021 12:31 p.m.

Подсев пустынных засухоустойчивых растений по полосам на деградированных пастбищах формирует улучшенную устойчивую структуру пастбищных фитоценозов из природных и посевных кормовых растений, и увеличивает кормовой потенциал пустынных пастбищ.

• Compiler: Rustam Ibragimov
• 03/24/2022 12:22 p.m.