Land Use Data for Latitude 9.25 Longitude 13.25

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

Locations

Gashiga: Demsa

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
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 drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Taro (Coco Yam)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.