Land Use Data for Latitude -12.75 Longitude 34.25

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

Locations

Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Pulses nes

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Plinthosols
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 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.