SLM Database

Multi-Nutritional Blocks for livestock are an alternative animal feed for all seasons. They are a concentrate of nutritious elements prepared from crop residues such as stalks, pods, etc.

• Compiler: Judith Macchi
• 11/02/2016 4:08 p.m.

Semi-circular bunds are used to rehabilitate degraded, denuded and hardened land for crop growing, grazing or forestry.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 7:54 a.m.

The rehabilitation of a rangeland consists of fencing and subsequently seeding with herbaceous plants adapted to arid zones and to degraded soils.

• Compiler: Maman Aicha
• 10/31/2016 10:03 a.m.

Grass strips slow down runoff, increase infiltration and retain sediment, thus increasing crop production.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 8:02 a.m.

Pastoralism, as practiced in the case study area, is the traditional mode of extensive livestock husbandry, based on the movement of herds between the rich pastures in the northern pastoral zones (rainy season) and the southern areas (dry season) according to seasonal availability of water and grazing land / fodder …

• Compiler: Soumaila Abdoulaye
• 11/12/2010 9:20 a.m.

The ‘couloirs de passage’ are formally defined passageways which channel the movements of livestock herds in the agro-pastoral zones of Niger, by linking pastures, water points and coralling areas, be it within village areas (internal couloirs) or on open land (external couloirs).

• Compiler: Lemma Ababu
• 11/11/2010 2:54 p.m.

Technology is based on changing cropland to grazing land due to shallow soils with high share of rocks. This is the cause for lower yields or loss of yield during drought periods.

• Compiler: Matjaz Glavan
• 06/11/2017 11:16 p.m.

To improve infiltration and vegetation cover, by creating small pits on bare soil, which capture runoff and reduce erosion.

• Compiler: Dirk Pretorius
• 02/02/2018 1:51 p.m.

Eradication of invasive species and revegetation of degraded rangelands by different treatments, including oversowing with grass seed mixture, supplementing with lime, cattle dung, and "brush packing" (laid out branches).

• Compiler: Klaus Kellner
• 01/29/2011 3:12 p.m.

Rotational grazing is a management system based on the subdivision of the grazing area into a number of enclosures and the successive grazing of these paddocks by animals in a rotation so that not all the veld (grazing area) is grazed simultaneously

• Compiler: Lehman Lindeque
• 11/12/2010 11:07 a.m.