SLM Database

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.

The nine maize pits is a type of SLM technology whereby, a planting pits measuring (2*2*2) feet are dug along a contour and maize planted in the pit at a spacing of (30*30) cm. The top soil is mixed with FYM and the spaces in between are left un-ploughed.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 1:22 p.m.

A ditch across the slope for trapping /retaining runoff to encourage infiltration

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 9:49 a.m.

A rock catchment system is a water harvesting structure comprising a bare sloping rock surface (impounded area), a constructed concrete wall at a strategic point (weir), pipeline from the weir to the storage tank(s), storage tanks and water kiosk(s) connected to the water tanks by pipelines.

• Compiler: Fredrick Ochieng
• 09/21/2016 1:50 p.m.