Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude 27.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Kafue flats Kafue Flats Game Management Area |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 10Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 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.
