SLM Database

Artificial grassed waterways are constructed waterways established for transportation of concentrated flow at safe velocities using adequate vegetation.

• Compilador/a: Paul Kahiga
• 20/06/2013 10:22

Fanya juu terraces stabilized with nappier grass and sweet potatoes are earth bunds created by digging a trench along a contour and throwing the soil up slope to form an embankment that is stabilized with nappier grass and during maintenance phase, the accumulated sediments are removed and thrown on the …

• Compilador/a: Paul Kahiga
• 19/02/2015 12:54

Les arbres de Grevillea robusta à usage multiples sont plantés le long les limites des champs, sur les talus des terraces et des fois dispersés dans les champs.

• Compilador/a: Ceris A. Jones
• 27/10/2010 12:09

management of runoff water on the road and its environment to reduce land degradation

• Compilador/a: James Gatero Njuki
• 05/06/2011 22:14

Grass reseeding is a sustainable land management practice aimed at rehabilitating degraded pastures and providing livestock feed. This is mainly carried out with indigenous perennial grass species.

• Compilador/a: Kevin Mganga
• 18/05/2017 10:04

Enlarged ditch/channels that are not graded in order to collect and retain runoff from road/school (External Catchments)

• Compilador/a: Unknown User
• 06/06/2011 10:15

Blocking of a gully by use of stone checks in order to impede runoff and improve soil moisture for crop production

• Compilador/a: Kithinji Mutunga
• 06/06/2011 17:02

A combination of agricultural (e.g. intercropping, mulching, minimum tillage), vegetative (e.g. Napier grass strips, trees planting) and structural (e.g. ditches, bench terracing) measures which aim to maximise the overall yield in a sustainable manner (e.g. reduction of soil erosion and increasing the soil quality).

• Compilador/a: Laura D'Aietti
• 26/02/2013 10:26

Land use management system in which coffee is grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems.

• Compilador/a: Paul Kahiga
• 19/02/2015 10:32

The nine maize pits is a type of SLM technology whereby, a planting pits measuring (2*2*2) feet are dug along a contour and maize planted in the pit at a spacing of (30*30) cm. The top soil is mixed with FYM and the spaces in between are left un-ploughed.

• Compilador/a: Paul Kahiga
• 19/02/2015 13:22