SLM Database

The granary is made of local material for food protection/preservation during bumper harvest

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 9:46 a.m.

Home gardens provide low-income households with continuous food supply and increase the resilience of their livelihoods to climate change

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:19 p.m.

Improved fruit tree nursery is a technology comprising of grafted mangoes, grafted citrus, eucalyptus and pines, established with the aim of improving household income and promotion of agro-forestry farming systems within surrounding communities to achieve environmental conservation.

• Compiler: Jalia Namakula
• 06/08/2017 12:37 p.m.

Teak (Tectona grandis) is preferred as a timber species in northern Uganda because the tree species better endures drought conditions compared to other species such as Pine. A tree plantation of Teak is established mainly to provide timber but also sequester atmospheric carbon and act as wind break.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:24 p.m.

Lowlands have relatively high water tables and contain sufficient soil moisture to permit potatoes growing. Potatoes can grow in such areas compared to other staple crops like cassava.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:44 p.m.

Farmer-managed natural regeneration is a low-cost, sustainable land restoration technique involving the re-growth of trees from tree stumps and seedlings in the wild.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/06/2017 2:16 p.m.

Trees of various sizes are integrated with crops such as coffee and/or banana, maize and beans such that each group of plants occupies a specific vertical position and competition for vertical space is minimized

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 05/03/2017 7:48 a.m.

Clonal eucalyptus trees (originating from South Africa) grow in northern Uganda for timber production

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/29/2017 2:33 p.m.

A minimum tillage technology where the garden is cleared by slashing and crops are planted without opening the land. Only the spot where the seed is planted is dug. The rest of the land is left undisturbed.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/19/2017 2:36 p.m.

Cultivating leguminous crops in weed prone fields to help overgrow and kill the weeds

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/06/2017 8:16 a.m.