Map visualisation service (WMS) of the dataset: Mountain and pièmont areas in Saône and Loire (agricultural zoning)

Supra-communal zoning of the mountain areas of the department of Saône and Loire (in the agricultural sense). The definition of the mountain area refers to the zoning inherited from the 1985 Mountain Act, allowing in particular the allocation of compensatory aid to natural agricultural handicaps. Indeed, the Law states that "mountain areas are characterised by significant handicaps leading to more difficult living conditions and restricting the exercise of certain economic activities. They include municipalities or parts of communes characterised by a considerable limitation of land use possibilities and a significant increase in the costs of the work due. Three criteria determine these territories: climatic conditions resulting in a shortened growing season; steep slopes complicating the mechanisation of agricultural activity; a combination of these factors. Two types of zones are defined: mountain and piemont.