Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Infra-communal less-favoured agricultural areas defined by prefectural order 2007 — Aveyron

Less-favoured agricultural areas are territories with specific (economic, agricultural, physical and demographic), natural and permanent handicaps linked to terrain, altitude, slope and soil, in which the maintenance of agricultural activity is necessary for the maintenance of the natural area (see Directive 75/268/EEC). They carry the public policy of support for agriculture (ICHN aid) in its environmental and social functions which make it an important contributor to the sustainable development of the economy.The compensatory allowances for natural handicaps (ICHN) contribute to the maintenance of a viable rural community in the less-favoured areas and thus help to balance the occupation of the territory by economic and human activities.Some of the national less-favoured areas described in the layer 0000129 are subdivided into sub-departmental or sub-communal disadvantaged areas, by prefectural order classifying as less-favoured areas.