Land Use Data for Latitude 0.25 Longitude 34.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Busia grasslands Sio Port swamp Yala swamp complex |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryCropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasBeans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Groundnuts in Shell
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
AcrisolsCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Plinthosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain 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
Population Density (persons per km2)
050 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.
