SLM Database

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.

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 30/06/2017 14:44

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.

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 06/06/2017 14:16

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

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 03/05/2017 07:48

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

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 29/06/2017 14:33

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.

• Compilador: Sunday Balla Amale
• 19/12/2017 14:36

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

• Compilador: Sunday Balla Amale
• 06/12/2017 08:16

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

• Compilador: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 02/05/2017 13:32

Fire lines are established at the boundary between tree plantations to guard against wild forest fires that destroy the valuable tree species

• Compilador: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 03/05/2017 10:03

Using relatively cheap and locally available bamboo material to make bee hives is adaptable to local setting and reduces harvesting of large native trees

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 17/06/2017 16:02

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

• Compilador: Bernard Fungo
• 11/06/2017 15:10