Land Use Data for Latitude 14.25 Longitude -4.75

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

Locations

Kouakourou

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Millet
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

60 to 89
90 to 119

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

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.