SLM Database

Stone lines (or "stone barriers") are small structures aligned along contours. These reduce the velocity of runoff flowing down sloping land while capturing materials carried by the water. The stone lines gradually accumulate sediment which leads to the gradual creation of terraces.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 12/19/2022 2:44 p.m.

In Tunisia, ensuring a consistent supply of quality forage and pasture seeds to farmers is a critical hurdle in advancing the livestock industry, with many farmers turning to self-produced seeds to fulfil their requirements.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 03/02/2023 9:58 a.m.

Dry stone walls are durable landscaping structures created by arranging stones to construct small walls (without cement or plaster) either following contour lines or approximately perpendicular to the slope.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 02/26/2023 3:02 p.m.

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.