A regulatory term referring to the use of land for the purpose of agriculture, including for agricultural plantations and set-aside agricultural areas.
Agricultural use is part of the formal vocabulary used in traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
the use of land for the purpose of agriculture, including for agricultural plantations and set-aside agricultural areas, and for rearing livestock;
Reference: Article 2, point 5
In practice, this term matters when translating official-source language into product, battery, supply-chain, or compliance data models used in traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence.
For Minespider, agricultural use is useful when turning dense legal text into a clearer operational vocabulary that can be linked to traceability, product data, and compliance workflows.