Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 29.25

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

Locations

Forests west of Lake Edward

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid
Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.