Land Use Data for Latitude -17.75 Longitude 26.25

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

Locations

Jambezi Wildlife Management Area
Mosi-oa-Tunya and the Batoka Gorge

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Groundnuts in Shell
Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.