Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude 29.75

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

Locations

Middle Zambezi Valley

Agricultural Land Uses

Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Oil-bearing crops

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

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

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.