SLM Database

Northern Rangeland Trust works across the rangelands of northern Kenya to improve market access to pastoral communities across 20,000 km2. The program improves local revenue generation, incentives to reduce herd size, and channels funding into improved rangeland management across the conservancies.

• Compiler: Peter Tyrrell
• 03/13/2018 7:28 a.m.

The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is about people and their relationships with the land. The tool as applied secures tenure through the recognition of tenure diversity and social contexts. STDM recognizes that secure tenure builds confidence among the resource users, and therefore promotes confidence to investment at different levels: …

• Compiler: Ken Otieno
• 02/03/2018 11:51 a.m.

On-farm indigenous pasture establishment demonstrations offer a practical approach to encourage adoption in the arid and semi-arid environments in Kenya.

• Compiler: Kevin Mganga
• 11/25/2017 9:47 a.m.

Mara Beef provides a new direct to market sales approach for pastoralist's in Kenya, in an effort to make livestock production more viable to local landowners. This livestock production model is combined with rangeland management and training in an effort to improve pastoral livlihoods, restore rangelands and prevent degradation, and …

• Compiler: Peter Tyrrell
• 02/28/2018 12:48 p.m.

After consultations with local stakeholders, experts (from NEMA, ICRAF, KFS, Wildlife Kenya) and Homabay County Government representatives the FMNR approach is being introduced by World Vision through a public funded project. The aim of the approach is to promote FMNR and sustainable land and natural resource management through disseminating the …

• Compiler: Thomas Kalytta
• 11/21/2016 4:17 p.m.

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: James Gatero Njuki
• 01/20/2009 midnight

Spontaneous land users' initiative to meet household needs - especially firewood and timber - through planting Grevillea robusta trees as part of an agroforestry system.

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 01/20/2009 midnight

Small-scale farmers forming self-help groups to provide mutual support for adopting and promoting conservation agriculture.

• Compiler: Frederick I. Kihara
• 01/20/2009 midnight

The approach focuses on community engagement on a partnership basis. The model is a departure from the traditional approaches where the community mostly is reduced to being a beneficiary of project services without substantive responsibility.

• Compiler: Fredrick Ochieng
• 09/26/2016 9:51 a.m.

WRUA are associations of water users and riparian land owners who have associated for the purposes of cooperatively sharing, managing and conserving a common water resource.

• Compiler: Manuel Fischer
• 09/17/2013 midnight