Land Use Data for Latitude -15.25 Longitude 28.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Chisamba |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)Groundnuts in Shell
Seed Cotton
Soybeans
Sunflower Seed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
Infant 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.
