Land Use Data for Latitude -3.75 Longitude 37.25

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

Locations

Nyumba ya Mungu reservoir

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

0
150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50

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.