Land Use Data for Latitude -15.25 Longitude 35.75

Locations

Lake Chilwa and flood-plain

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cassava
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km²)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100