Land Use Data for Latitude 10.75 Longitude 8.75

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

Locations

Falgore and Lame Burra Game Reserves

Agricultural Land Uses

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
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Yams

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols

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)

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.