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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
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
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LFA
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 1997-01-01
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2020-12-01
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_LessFavouredAreas
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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IPSV Subjects List
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Agricultural land
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Common Agricultural Policy
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
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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
- Denominator
- 50000
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Environment
- Code
- S92000003
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
ESRI REST
1.0
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name OGC:WMS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/WMSServer? LessFavouredAreas
OGC:WFS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/WFSServer? AE:LessFavouredAreas
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/3 Less Favoured Areas
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_LessFavouredAreas_2020.zip Less Favoured Areas
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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LFA dataset was digitised in 1997. The creation details are not known.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f4e358c1-df06-4107-bfd2-03f7581ecb07 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-01-14T13:23:46
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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GI-SAT
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
- City
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Edinburgh
- Postal code
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
- Role
- Point of contact
