Permanent Agricultural Areas Protected by the Government of Quebec

Permanent agricultural areas are territories protected for agricultural purposes by the Government of Quebec. The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-22. It is available in multiple geospatial file formats including SHP, GEOJSON, KML, and CSV.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze protected agricultural zones based on the described territorial boundaries.
• Model land-use change and urban encroachment on farmland based on the protected area designation.
• Support agricultural policy development and enforcement based on the government-defined protected territories.

Strengths

• Available in multiple interoperable geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided (2026-04-22).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official land-use planning and zoning records.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:43:30.356012; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quebec, Canada