Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude 27.25

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

Locations

Kafue flats
Kafue Flats Game Management Area

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 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.