Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 29.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Forests west of Lake Edward |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed 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 humidCool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 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 plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 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.
