Land Use Data for Latitude 9.25 Longitude 38.25

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

Locations

Berga floodplain
Chilimo forest

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Millet
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.