SLM Database

Mechanical bench terraces are a landscaping technique employed on sloping terrain. These are essentially mechanically constructed earthen levees or embankments established along contour lines.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 02/20/2023 6:10 a.m.

Contour ploughing is an agricultural technique involving the cultivation of sloping land along contour lines. This technique creates a succession of closely spaced ridges and furrows which help to retain water and soil.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 02/24/2023 12:18 p.m.

Individual dry-stone basins are a traditional runoff water collection technique built in dry stone around the trunk of trees, mainly olive trees.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 12/18/2022 9:35 a.m.

The introduction of 'Kounouz,' a drought-tolerant barley variety, has significantly enhanced farm income and reduced production risks for small-scale farmers in Tunisia.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 04/30/2023 2:23 p.m.

The mobile seed cleaning machine improves the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Tunisia by significantly enhancing seed quality, increasing crop production, reducing workload and costs, and promoting local value chains and social cohesion.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 03/02/2023 11:35 a.m.

Compressing agro-industrial by-products produces nutrient-dense livestock feed pellets that can compete with expensive and imported alternatives. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor or "pelletizer" and formulae to create feed pellets of sufficient quality with locally available inputs.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 10/26/2022 2:43 p.m.

The technology utilizes a drought-tolerant native forage legume, Hedysarium coronarium, to restore degraded soils by covering the soil, fixing nitrogen, improving biodiversity and increasing water infiltration while fodder quality and availability is improved.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 06/02/2021 4:11 p.m.

This technology is based on the natural advantages and the multi-purpose usage of spineless cactus pear (Opuntia fiscus-indica), to cultivate marginal lands in central Tunisia, generating environmental and socio-economic benefits.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 09/08/2021 11:28 a.m.

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a "ready-to-scale concept" in agriculture that allows a sustainable agricultural production and mitigation of climate change. The documented CA focuses on a dryland mixed system, including a biennial rotation of legume and cereals with integrated livestock management. CA has positive benefits on soil health and significantly …

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 10/12/2020 1:34 p.m.

Le compostage est un procédé de décomposition des déchets organiques fermentescibles par des micro-organismes dans des conditions controlées.

• Compiler: Donia Mühlematter
• 05/16/2018 7:12 p.m.