Land Use Data for Latitude -4.25 Longitude 37.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Agriculture in protected areas Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid Warm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Poultry CropsBananasCereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Groundnuts in Shell Maize Oil-bearing crops Growing Period (days)150 to 179180 to 209 Soil TypesAcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Luvisols Solonchaks (Saline) Vertisols (Heavy clay) Unknown TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% 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)010 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)40 to 5075 to 100 Mineral Extraction
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. |