Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude -12.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Yawri Bay

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Wetlands - Mangrove

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.