SLM Database

Rotational fertilization is an integrated crop-livestock management measure practiced by the agropastoralist Peulh.

• Compiler: Soumaila Abdoulaye
• 11/08/2010 11:48 a.m.

Oasis gardens in Niger for crop, vegetable and fruit production are supplied with irrigation water from traditional wells.

• Compiler: Soumaila Abdoulaye
• 09/30/2010 11:24 a.m.

The low pressure pipe distribution system called ‘Californian’ has proven to be a very efficient irrigation system for small-holder farmers group in Africa.

• Compiler: Julie Zähringer
• 09/29/2010 4:07 p.m.

The African Market Garden (AMG) is a horticultural production system based on low-pressure drip irrigation.

• Compiler: Julie Zähringer
• 09/27/2010 2:37 p.m.

The bande de filao, a 200 m wide belt of Casuarina equisetifolia trees, was established along the Senegalese coast from Dakar to St.Louis, to protect the adjacent Niayes region from wandering sand dunes.

• Compiler: Julie Zähringer
• 11/15/2010 8:40 a.m.

Ngitili are traditional enclosures for in-situ conservation and rehabilitation of vegetation, practiced by the Wasukuma agropastoralists in Shinyanga, Tanzania.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/10/2010 4:20 p.m.

The Chagga homegardens are traditional, densely planted ‘banana forests’ with a scattered upper tree layer.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/20/2010 3:59 p.m.

Shelterbelts made of leguminous trees and shrubs protect annual crops from wind erosion.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/26/2010 12:04 p.m.

Smallstock manure production technology is an easy and efficient method to produce organic fertilizer for the conservation and improvement of soil fertility.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/09/2010 3:23 p.m.

Water harvesting and storage structures to impound runoff generated from upstream catchment areas.

• Compiler: MAIMBO MALESU
• 09/23/2010 2:48 p.m.