Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 30.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism Open Water - Inland Fisheries EcosystemsMediterranean humidCool Tropic mixed Warm Tropics humid Warm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry CropsBananasBeans Dry Cassava Cereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Fruits Grain (dried) Maize Roots tubers Sweet Potatoes Growing Period (days)210 to 239240 to 269 270 to 299 300 to 329 above 360 Soil TypesAcrisolsAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes) Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Luvisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Mountain > 2500 Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)10 to 5050 to 250 above 250 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. |