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Population-Interaction Zones for Agriculture (PIZA)

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posted on 2024-10-01, 13:18 authored by USDA Economic Research Service
Note: Updates to this data product are discontinued. The PIZA codes index small geographic areas (the contiguous 48 States divided up into five-kilometer grid cells) according to the size and proximity of population concentrations. Widespread conversion of rural lands to urban uses has drawn attention at all levels of government. To provide information useful for projections of future changes in land use, ERS has created a system to classify remaining farmland into "population-interaction zones for agriculture" (PIZA). These zones represent areas of agricultural land use in which urban-related activities (residential, commercial, and industrial) affect the economic and social environment of agriculture. In these zones, interactions between urban-related population and farm production activities tend to increase the value of farmland, change the production practices and enterprises of farm operators, and elevate the probability that farmland will be converted to urban-related uses.

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USDA-ERS

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webadmin@ers.usda.gov

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Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture

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  • economy

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

economics; agricultural economics

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:13 - Economic Research Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:041 - Economic Research, Market Outlook, and Policy Analysis

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