Other anomalous areas represent farming under poor conditions, which means farmers get very little back for a lot of work. Because, in many cases, you either farm the poor land for a little food or die of starvation. More details about these data can be obtained from the Home page of the Greater Horn of Africa Project. This map shows a false-color mosaic of satellite images. In the color scheme used here, vegetation shows up in tones of red, barren or nearly barren rock and soils are greenish or grayish, and sand shows up as yellow or white.
Water is colored an artificial deep blue.
The outline of the satellite image of the Virunga Mountains available in the Local Scale images can be seen at lower left. This map includes political boundaries and coastlines at the same scale as the other maps in this set. All rights reserved.