SLM Database

Mulching is done by covering the soil surface between crop rows, around trees (mostly fruit and orchard) or vegetables with cut grass, crop residues, straw or other plant material in order to retain soil moisture, prevent or suppress weed growth and enhance soil structure.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 9:52 a.m.

Artificial grassed waterways are constructed waterways established for transportation of concentrated flow at safe velocities using adequate vegetation.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 10:22 a.m.

Fanya juu terraces stabilized with nappier grass and sweet potatoes are earth bunds created by digging a trench along a contour and throwing the soil up slope to form an embankment that is stabilized with nappier grass and during maintenance phase, the accumulated sediments are removed and thrown on the …

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 12:54 p.m.

Multipurpose Grevillea robusta trees planted along farm boundaries, on terrace risers and occasionally scattered in cropland.

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 10/27/2010 12:09 p.m.

management of runoff water on the road and its environment to reduce land degradation

• Compiler: James Gatero Njuki
• 06/05/2011 10:14 p.m.

Grass reseeding is a sustainable land management practice aimed at rehabilitating degraded pastures and providing livestock feed. This is mainly carried out with indigenous perennial grass species.

• Compiler: Kevin Mganga
• 05/18/2017 10:04 a.m.

Enlarged ditch/channels that are not graded in order to collect and retain runoff from road/school (External Catchments)

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 10:15 a.m.

Blocking of a gully by use of stone checks in order to impede runoff and improve soil moisture for crop production

• Compiler: Kithinji Mutunga
• 06/06/2011 5:02 p.m.

A combination of agricultural (e.g. intercropping, mulching, minimum tillage), vegetative (e.g. Napier grass strips, trees planting) and structural (e.g. ditches, bench terracing) measures which aim to maximise the overall yield in a sustainable manner (e.g. reduction of soil erosion and increasing the soil quality).

• Compiler: Laura D'Aietti
• 02/26/2013 10:26 a.m.

Land use management system in which coffee is grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 10:32 a.m.