Land Use Data for Latitude -1.75 Longitude 31.75

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

Locations

Lake Victoria: Bumbire Islands

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Unknown

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 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.