Land Use Data for Latitude 9.75 Longitude 10.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics drylandsLivestockCattleGoats Sheep CropsCassavaCereals and cereal products Maize Yams Growing Period (days)120 to 149150 to 179 Soil TypesLeptosols (Shallow soils)Lixisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 Population Density (persons per km2)10 to 5050 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)above 100Agricultural 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. |