Land Use Data for Latitude 10.75 Longitude 6.25

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

Locations

Kamuku National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Melonseed
Oil-bearing crops
Yams

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

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.