SLM Database

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.

Fish ponds are established where there is access to water to enhance fish production and household incomes

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/02/2017 1:32 p.m.

Baby melon (cucumis melo) is used as a cover-crop to prevent soil degradation

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/11/2017 3:10 p.m.

Growing Improved Pastures (chloris gayana, brachiaria mulato and pernisetum purpurem) is a technology promoted among small, meduim scale farmers in Kyegegwa District, Western Uganda for sustainable dairy production, improved nutrition and sustainable land management.

• Compiler: Jalia Namakula
• 01/26/2018 9:55 a.m.

Improved pawpaw (Carica papaya) fruit tree growing using improved varieties for Sustainable Land Management Practices and income generation.

• Compiler: Babirye Irene
• 03/23/2018 10:42 a.m.

Lab lab (Lablab purpureus) is planted in a banana garden and trained to creep in the empty spaces for suppressing weeds, stabilizing the soil, fixing atmospheric nitrogen and controlling water runoff.

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 02/02/2018 8:06 a.m.

Pine-based shelter belt is used to protect an orchard of mangoes against strong winds in order to prevent abscission of generative organs such as flower buds, flowers, small fruits and ripened fruits

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:14 p.m.

Leguminous, fast growing grevillea robusta (silk oak) planted as boundary lines provides shade to a pineapple cropland, increases soil organic matter, provides fuel wood for domestic use and timber for construction after 5-8 years.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 06/07/2017 1:19 p.m.

Sack gardening is a technology that consists of a series of sacks that are filled with manure, soil and small stones that enable water to drain, from the tops and sides of the sacks, often referred to as multi-stoney gardens to increase production.

• Compiler: Babirye Irene
• 03/22/2018 10:15 a.m.