Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude 0.75

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

Locations

Keta Lagoon Ramsar Site

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oats
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Planosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.