Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude 47.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Anosy Mountains |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattlePoultry
Crops
Beans DryCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops
Growing Period (days)
300 to 329330 to 359
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Regosols (Other)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Agricultural 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.
