The main objective of this study was to characterize the spatial structure of periurban agriculture for the purpose of operational urban development, avoiding the use of cumbersome and costly surveys when the public action sphere is extended to a region or a country. On the basis of Partial Least Squares-Path Modeling (PLS-PM), the approach developed here uses data freely available in France and makes it possible to analyze complex relationships between the socio-economic structure of farms, demography, landscape structure, and landscape management and function. The results are used to identify spatial units of periurban farmland (USAP). Aggregated at the municipal level, they reveal municipalities under the influence of an urban pole whose agricultural areas have a greater possibility of developing short marketing chains towards the city and that could consequently justify public support for local supply options.

这项研究的主要目的是表征城市周边农业的空间结构，以进行城市可​​操作的发展，避免在公共行动领域扩展到某个地区或某个国家时使用繁琐而昂贵的调查。在偏最小二乘路径建模（PLS-PM）的基础上，此处开发的方法使用了法国免费提供的数据，并有可能分析农场的社会经济结构，人口，景观结构和景观之间的复杂关系。管理和功能。结果可用于识别郊区农田（USAP）的空间单位。汇总在市一级，