Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude -1.25

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

Locations

Kakum National Park: Assin Attandaso Resource Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Onions+Shallots Green
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75
75 to 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.