Land Use Data for Latitude -4.75 Longitude 38.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Baga I (Mzinga) Forest Reserve Mkussu Forest Reserve Shagayu Forest Reserve West Usambara Mountains West Usambara Mountains |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals 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 Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 5075 to 100
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.
