Land Use Data for Latitude -25.25 Longitude 30.75

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

Locations

Mac-Mac escarpment and forests

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Maize

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

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
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75

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.