SLM Database

Lolldaiga Hills ranch is a private ranch and conservancy with livestock production and tourism. Rotational grazing is used to manage livestock on semi-arid lands with limited water resources. Bare land is recovered by a "Boma” technology – strategic corralling of animals overnight on degraded land.

• Compilateur : Michael Herger
• 20 juil. 2017 16:30

Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) is a product that was designed to help protect pastoralists and their livestock against the effects of prolonged forage scarcity. IBLI triggers payments to pastoralists when the forage situation deteriorates to levels considered to be severe, compared with historical conditions.

• Compilateur : Duncan Collins Khalai
• 24 jan. 2018 12:36

Le système de pâturage «dedha» est un ancien système traditionnel de gouvernance des terres et de ses ressources, pratiqué par les pasteurs Boran. Il équilibre soigneusement la manière dont les pasteurs utilisent les ressources des parcours. La technologie est fondée sur l’existence de trois zones de gouvernance des parcours et …

• Compilateur : IBRAHIM JARSO
• 21 fév. 2018 14:58

Conservation agriculture for maize-legume systems with velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) as a dense cover crop is being promoted in western Kenya to address the challenges of land degradation, low crop yields, low incomes, high production costs and climate change.

• Compilateur : Kennedy Were
• 31 mai 2020 01:49

Protection of the riparian zone at Kapingazi River by leaving it undisturbed of human interference

• Compilateur : Manuel Fischer
• 3 juil. 2013 09:57

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a proven SLM Technology to restore degraded wasteland and improve depleted farmland. The farmer regu- lates and facilitates the re-growth of existing trees stumps, or self-sown seeds in the soil, and thus promotes soil fertility and through better ground cover, increases protection from runoff …

• Compilateur : Thomas Kalytta
• 4 août 2016 10:40

Silt harvesting on riverbeds to maximise sugarcane growing in semi arid area

• Compilateur : Kithinji Mutunga
• 6 juin 2011 15:48

A riparian area that is frequently flooded requires a special treatment because conventional agriculture is not possible. Trees along the riverbank and Napier grass on the remaining space still allow a productive use despite the difficult circumstances.

• Compilateur : Manuel Fischer
• 28 jan. 2013 11:23

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.

• Compilateur : Paul Kahiga
• 19 fév. 2015 10:16

Livestock movements are managed through community governance systems to maintain spatial and temporal heterogeneity of pasture, creating a gradient of quality and quantity of pasture across the landscape. This is achieved through clearly designated seasonal grazing areas for livestock and tight controls on settlement areas, grazing patterns and water points. …

• Compilateur : Peter Tyrrell
• 1 fév. 2018 11:19