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Effects of proximity to cities on farm production systems
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Because of increasing peri-urban sprawl, agricultural production systems must today be analysed according to the location of the farm : they are
influenced by both the size of neighbouring urban areas and the farm’s
distance from them.
Near cities, especially the largest of them, farms
are small and intensive. Farther from urban centres, because it is less
expensive, land is substituted for capital and for labour. These effects
can be seen for several kilometres around small cities and for as far as
several dozen kilometres around larger metropolises.
- (PDF : 142.3 ko) 13/03/2007
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