SLM Database

A hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and tree species, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 1:02 p.m.

Ox-ploughed furrow micro-catchments are intentionally built as part of seedbed preparation to harvest rainwater. Commonly used in dryland environments, the micro-catchment prolong water availability for seed germination and growth and development of the emerging seedlings.

• Compiler: Kevin Mganga
• 07/03/2017 11:39 a.m.

The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is about people and their relationships with land. The tool as applied secures tenure through the recognition of tenure diversity and social contexts. In the management of land and resources use, STDM facilitates proper land use and management to minimize practices that lead to …

• Compiler: Ken Otieno
• 12/13/2017 3:59 p.m.

Masonry dam in seasonal watercourse or river that stores water in the sand which accumulates above it.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 10:01 a.m.

Pasture management and improvement through weeding comiphora

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 4:20 p.m.

The technology is a combination of agricultural (e.g. intercropping, manure/compost/mulching), vegetative (e.g. Napier grass strips, trees planting) and structural (e.g. ditches) measures which aim to maximise the overall land yield in a sustainable manner (e.g. reducing soil erosion and increasing soil quality).

• Compiler: Laura D'Aietti
• 02/27/2013 11:46 p.m.

Conservation Agriculture is a concept for resource-saving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environment.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 12:42 p.m.

Retention ditches, also called infiltration ditches, are larger ditches designed to catch and retain all incoming runoff for infiltration into the soil.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 1:29 p.m.

Rotational grazing is a process whereby livestock are strategically moved to fresh paddocks, or partitioned pasture areas, to allow vegetation in previously grazed pastures to regenerate.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 11:44 a.m.

Structural riverbank protection by metal nets called gabion that are filled with stones

• Compiler: Manuel Fischer
• 09/13/2013 12:21 p.m.