Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude -2.75

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

Locations

Boin River Forest Reserve
Tano-Anwia Forest Reserve
Tano-Ehuro Forest Reserve
Tano-Nimiri Forest Reserve
Yoyo River Forest Reserve

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 (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

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.