Less Favoured Areas
In recognition of the different physical and socio-economic characteristics across the regions, the European Union introduced the Less Favoured Area (LFA) designation to support farming where production conditions are difficult. The criteria for LFA designation were first established in European legislation in 1975 (Directive 75/268 EEC and accompanying measures). There are 3 types of LFA's; all in Scotland fall into the category of simple LFA's marked by poor soils and low agricultural income. Scotland's LFA's are defined by:
(i) The presence of poor land of poor productivity, which is difficult to cultivate and with a limited potential which cannot be increased except at excessive cost, and which is mainly suitable for extensive livestock farming.
(ii) lower than average production, compared to the main indices of economic performance in agriculture.
(iii) a low or dwindling population predominantly dependent on agricultural activity, the accelerated decline of which could cause rural depopulation
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Citation proposal
. Less Favoured Areas. Scottish Government https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/f4e358c1-df06-4107-bfd2-03f7581ecb07 |
Simple
- Alternate title
- LFA
- Date ( Creation )
- 1997-01-01
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_LessFavouredAreas
- Presentation form
- mapDigital Digital map
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary version 2
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- Agricultural Land , Common Agricultural Policy
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
- The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
- Spatial representation type
- vector Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Environment
- Geographic identifier
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GB-SCT
- Date ( Revision )
- 2007-12-13
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
- Distribution format
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- WMS (1.3.0 )
- WFS (2.0.0 )
- ESRI REST (1.0 )
- ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )
- OnLine resource
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Less Favoured Areas
OGC View Service
- OnLine resource
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Less_Favoured_Areas
OGC Feature Download Service
- OnLine resource
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Less Favoured Areas
ESRI REST Service
- OnLine resource
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Area Management
ATOM Download Service
- OnLine resource
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Less Favoured Areas
ESRI Shapefile Download
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
- LFA dataset was digitised in 1997. The creation details are not known.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f4e358c1-df06-4107-bfd2-03f7581ecb07 XML
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-12-05
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0