Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Less-favoured agricultural areas in the Upper Rhine

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 supporting agriculture (ICHN aid) in its environmental and social functions, which make it an important contributor to the sustainable development of the economy. Compensation for natural handicaps (ICHN) contributes to the maintenance of a viable rural community in less-favoured areas and thus helps to balance the occupation of the territory by economic and human activities. The classification, in whole or in part, of municipalities in less-favoured areas is determined by decrees of the Ministry of Agriculture. It is broken down into five types of less-favoured areas: high mountain, mountain, dry mountain, foothill and simple less-favoured areas.农业弱势区域（Less-favoured Agricultural Areas）指因地形、海拔、坡度及土壤条件，存在经济、农业、自然地理与人口等特定维度固有且长期劣势的区域，维持农业活动对于维护该类自然区域具有必要性（参见欧盟指令75/268/EEC）。此类区域承载着以环境与社会功能为核心的农业扶持公共政策（ICHN援助），该政策使其成为经济可持续发展的重要贡献主体。自然弱势补偿（ICHN）有助于维持农业弱势区域内具有存续能力的乡村社区，进而平衡经济活动与人类活动对区域空间的占用。农业弱势区域整体或部分覆盖的市镇分类，由农业主管部门的法令予以划定。该类区域共划分为五大类别：高山区、山区、干旱山区、丘陵区以及普通农业弱势区域。