Farming institutions in the arena of urban land management in the Toulouse urban area

Abstract

Periurbanisation in France produces spread-city urban form, with an intertwinning of development and rural areas near cities. This phenomenon is quite strong in the Midi-Pyrénées Region, in the south-west of France, mostly because of the growing of the city of Toulouse. In the same time, relationships between farming and city have changed, and a growing number of cities consider farmlands in the scope of their land management and land development attributions. In this paper, we propose to analyse for the Toulouse urban area the representation of farming and of farm lands in the public land management process, and the distinct stakeholders in this process, among whom the agricultural institutions