Overview

Dataset Title	Agroecological regions of Zambia	?
Abstract	Zambia is classified into three main agro-ecological zones according to pedological characteristics, climatic factors, rainfall patterns and common agricultural practices. The three ecological zones extend from the west to the east of the country with Agroecological Zone I in the South, Agroecological Zone II north of Agro-ecological Zone II and Agro-ecological Zone III further to the north covering parts of the North-western, Northern, Luapula, and Muchinga Provinces with the highest rainfall.	?
Topic Category	environment	?

Dataset Description

Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation	CERED - Centre for Environmental Research, Education and Development	?
Dataset Date Type	creation	?
Dataset Reference Date	2017-10-10	?
Dataset Language	English	?
Dataset Character Set	unknown	?
Dataset Online Linkage	no Online Linkage	?
Dataset Format	Shape	?
Dataset Scope	dataset	?
Dataset Status	completed	?
Associated project	SASSCAL (Phase 1)	?
Subproject	221 Forest resource assessment in the Mopane (Colophospermum) eco-region	?

Geographic Location

Description	Agroecological regions of Zambia	?
Western-most Longitude	21.880976540718	?
Eastern-most Longitude	33.664972138195	?
Southern-most Latitude	-17.995189893725	?
Northern-most Latitude	-8.1690170748215	?
Geographic Description	Zambia	?

Spatial Resolution

Spatial Representation Type	vector	?
Equivalent Scale	-1	?

Coordinate System

EPSG

WGS 84 / UTM zone 35S

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Additional Extent Information

Vertical Datum

WGS84

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Metadata

Metadata Contact Person	Patrick, Matakala, Prof\r\n	?
Metadata Language	English	?
Metadata Character Set	utf8	?
Metadata Standard Name	ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS	?
Metadata Date Stamp	2018-02-28	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_geodata_5722 (Link)