Land Use Data for Latitude 9.75 Longitude 8.75

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

Locations

Amurum woodlands (Taboru)
Assop Falls and hills

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Melonseed
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Yams

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
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.