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- Resource ID
- b72b452c-d30f-11ea-8e10-0050568ea38e
- Title
- Change in used agricultural area
- Date
- Jan. 1, 2011, 9:25 a.m., Publication
- Abstract
- The map shows changes in agricultural land area (%).
Traditional agricultural areas and their related settlements in the Alps have been abandoned in recent years, as a consequence of two main elements: the more attractive jobs available in services and industry sectors; and the increasing concentration of economic power, labour markets and public services in the main alpine cities. Despite structural changes, mountain farms tend to be quite small structured and they normally have a higher cost level than farms in the valley areas. Thus, from the 1950s onwards, marginal land with low yields has successively been taken out of agricultural use.
However, this development varies greatly in intensity between regions: while in the South Tyrol, one of the most productive regions of the Alps, only about 6% of farming land has been abandoned within the last 150 years, the figure stands at 33% for the Tyrolean uphill areas, 37% in the region around Innsbruck and reaches 67% in the Carnia region (Frioul region) (Knickel, Tisenkopfs and Peter, 2008). Between 1990 and 2000, Slovenia, Italy and Germany have shown particularly severe reductions of their area used for agriculture. Small reductions have occurred in Austria and Switzerland. In Switzerland, calculations in the framework of the national research programme (NFP 48) predicts that until 2015 ca. 20% of active farms in the year 2002 will not continue their activity due to generation change. Some areas, however, show a reversal trend. For example, a slight increase can be noted mainly in the west Austrian and in the French Maritime Alps (Knickel, Tisenkopfs and Peter, 2008).
- Edition
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- Responsible
- AlpineConvention
- Point of Contact
- alpine.convention.atlas@gmail.com
- Purpose
- This map is published within the 3rd Report on the state of the Alps (RSA3).
- Maintenance Frequency
- notPlanned
- Type
- vector
- Restrictions
- Some limitations apply to the access or use of the data
- License
- AC_Limited usage license
- Language
- eng
- Temporal Extent
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- Supplemental Information
- Source: (C) TAPPEINER U., BORSDORF A., TASSER E. (eds) Mapping the Alps, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag; Heidelberg; 2008.
The layer can be accessed through WMS services at http://www.atlas.alpconv.org/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
- Data Quality
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- Extent
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- x0: 3605539.250000000000000
- x1: 4471450.000000000000000
- y0: 1886483.500000000000000
- y1: 2428186.750000000000000
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:3034
- Keywords
- no keywords
- Category
- Agriculture
- Regions
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Alps