Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude -2.75

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

Locations

Ankasa Resource Reserve: Nini-Sushien National Park
Ankasa River Forest Reserve
Boin Tano Forest Reserve
Jema-Asemkrom Forest Reserve
Nini-Suhien National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil Palm Fruit
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

Acrisols
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
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
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.