Safer Occitanie
Safer Occitanie is a French public-interest land operator mediating agricultural, viticultural, and rural property transactions across all 13 departments of Occitanie, serving farmers, landowners, and local authorities through field offices, AI-powered friche detection tools, and a regional land market observatory.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2017
- HeadquartersCastanet-tolosan, France
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B and B2C
- OfferingServices
What Safer Occitanie does
Safer Occitanie is a French semi-public land development company (Société d'Aménagement Foncier et d'Établissement Rural) established on 30 May 2017 through the merger of Safer Languedoc-Roussillon and Safer Midi-Pyrénées. It is the mandated public-interest land operator for the entire Occitanie region, covering all 13 departments (Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Hérault, Lot, Lozère, Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Orientales, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne). The company mediates approximately 2,500 agricultural, viticultural, and rural land transactions per year, representing 21,300 hectares retroceded and a business volume of €270 million. It serves three primary constituencies: project seekers and farmers seeking to install, expand, or transmit agricultural operations; landowners looking to sell or rent rural properties; and public authorities (collectivités, filières, aménageurs) needing territorial planning, farmland preservation, friche reconquest, and environmental protection services.
The company's product surface combines a core property listings portal (occitanie.annonces-safer.fr) with specialized digital tools: Izifriche, an AI-powered service for automated detection and inventory of agricultural wastelands (using the WaSaBI AI developed with CNES, FNSafer, and INRAE through the SCO Friches Agricoles project); Vigifriche, a collaborative mobile mapping application co-developed with the Région Occitanie; Vigifoncier for monitoring Declarations of Intent to Alienate; Prix des Terres, an interactive land pricing reference; the Bourse Foncière Forestière for forest-land exchange; and a rural land market observatory processing over 32,000 notary sale notifications annually. Educational and engagement products include the Parlons Foncier webinar series and the inaugural Partageons la Terre! immersive public event (October 2024).
Safer Occitanie operates with a sales-led, field-based go-to-market motion through 13 departmental offices with approximately 190 employees (collaborateurs). Revenue is generated primarily through transaction fees on land mediation, augmented by evaluation services, institutional partnerships with departmental councils, water agencies (Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne), the Région Occitanie, and co-developments with research institutions. Pricing is quote-based rather than publicly listed, with no disclosed tiers or SaaS-style subscription model. The organization is governed by a president (Dominique GRANIER, re-elected May 2025), a board of directors, two vice-presidents, a director general, and operational leadership; it is not publicly traded and has no disclosed private funding rounds.
Safer Occitanie firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Safer Occitanie
- Legal name
- Safer Occitanie - Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural d'Occitanie
- Website
- https://safer-occitanie.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2017
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- Safer Occitanie is a French public-interest land operator mediating agricultural, viticultural, and rural property transactions across all 13 departments of Occitanie, serving farmers, landowners, and local authorities through field offices, AI-powered friche detection tools, and a regional land market observatory.
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Safer Occitanie industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Rural and Agricultural Land Management Services
- NAICS
- Farm Management Services (115116), Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)
- SIC
- Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Agricultural Services (700)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management) (BPAIANAH)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Field Mapping, GIS & Remote Sensing Analytics (AFAAAFAB), Farm Management & Decision Support Software (FMIS, ERP, Recordkeeping) (AFAGALAA), Land & Rural Property Appraisal (BPAJAKAD)
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Where Safer Occitanie is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Castanet-tolosan
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices13 records
Markets served
Safer Occitanie business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B and B2C
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Land Transaction Fees: Safer Occitanie generates revenue through fees on land and property transactions it mediates. Each year it conducts approximately 2,500 transactions representing 21,300 hectares of retrocession for a business volume of 270 M€.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Quote-based service through departmental offices |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels8 records
Safer Occitanie product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Safer Occitanie is a public-interest land operator (Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural) that mediates the rural land market across the 13 departments of the Occitanie region in southern France. It mediates approximately 2,500 land transactions per year (21,300 hectares retroceded, €270M business volume), supports the installation of new farmers, manages farmland sales and rentals, and develops proprietary digital tools such as Izifriche (AI-based detection of agricultural wastelands) and Vigifriche (collaborative mapping app) to support agricultural land preservation, environmental protection, and rural development.
Product overview
Safer Occitanie operates as a unified land transaction management platform for rural and agricultural properties across the 13 departments of Occitanie. The core platform (occitanie.annonces-safer.fr) enables property listing and transaction management, supplemented by specialized AI-powered tools (Izifriche for agricultural land detection, Vigifriche for mobile field mapping, Vigifoncier for DAA monitoring), pricing reference tools (Prix des Terres), and public application platforms (Appels à candidature). Educational outreach includes the Partageons la Terre immersive event and Parlons Foncier webinar series. The company facilitates approximately 2,500 transactions annually across 21,300 hectares, valued at €270M.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Izifriche: A service developed by Safer Occitanie for identifying, qualifying, and maintaining an inventory of agricultural wastelands using artificial intelligence ('friches WaSaBI').
- Vigifriche
- Parlons Foncier - Le Direct
Products and services
- Plateforme de gestion foncière (occitanie.annonces-safer.fr) Online property listing portal for rural and agricultural land transactions across the 13 departments of Occitanie, featuring available farms, vineyards, rural estates, and forestry land with search and filtering capabilities and a personal account area.
- Izifriche AI-powered service for identifying, cataloging, and maintaining an inventory of agricultural land parcels (friches) using artificial intelligence (WaSaBI). Produced from the SCO Friches Agricoles project with CNES, FNSafer, and INRAE, and made available to local authorities and developers for their land strategies.
- Vigifriche Collaborative mobile application with geolocation and cartographic space (aerial photography and cadastral plans) at the Occitanie scale, enabling the mapping, characterization, and quantification of agricultural wastelands (friches) by field users.
- Prix des Terres Interactive map tool providing annual land and vineyard pricing data for Occitanie, based on the rural land market observatory analyzing over 32,000 sale notifications per year from notaries. Includes vineyard prices and land prices subsections.
- Bourse Foncière Forestière Online platform for forest land exchange listings in Occitanie region, enabling forest owners to list and browse parcels for exchange.
- Cartographie et outils GPS GPS survey services for surface measurement and geolocation of structuring territorial elements, combined with cross-referencing of geographic data including aerial photos, cadastre, land ownership (private and public), agricultural zoning, natural and environmental risk zoning, and forest areas.
- Appels à candidature Public calls for candidacy to retrocess, exchange, substitute, or rent land properties across Occitanie departments, conducted under Article R.142-3 of the Rural Code and Maritime Fisheries Code.
- Espace personnel Personal account portal for project management, favorites tracking, and property search subscription on the property listings platform.
- Land Transaction Mediation Services Mediation of agricultural, viticultural, forestry, and rural land sales and rentals by Safer Occitanie's 13 departmental services across Occitanie, including property evaluation, secure sales, lease management through Convention de mise à disposition and bail Safer, and farm transmission support.
- Observatoire du marché foncier rural Rural land market observatory processing over 32,000 project sale notifications per year from notaries under the Rural Code and Maritime Fisheries Code, covering agricultural and forest land markets in Occitanie.
Quantifiable outcome
- 2,500 transactions per year representing 21,300 hectares of retrocession and a business volume of 270 M€
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Companies that use Safer Occitanie
Customer profileNamed customers12 records
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Safer Occitanie technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration4 records
AI capability1 record
Feature4 records
Safer Occitanie partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
13 partnerships are on record, tiered major, significant, supporting and core.
- FEVEmajorCollaboration between FEVE and Safer Nouvelle-Aquitaine & Occitanie for securing agricultural transmissions and facilitating new farmer installations. Implements operational solutions: land carrying (portage foncier), successor search, and farmer support, adapted to territorial needs.
- Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne, SMBV2A, ADASEA d'OcsignificantJoint project for the preservation and management of wetlands in the Serènes basin watershed, under the 'restoration of wetlands' call for projects by the Entente pour l'eau du bassin Adour Garonne. Combines land management tools with environmental protection practices.
- Safer Guyane / FNSafersupportingSafer Occitanie acts as 'compagnon de route' (mentor/buddy) for the newly created Safer Guyane (the 17th Safer, created November 2021), under a convention signed with FNSafer. Dominique Granier and Safer Occitanie support the set-up and training of Safer Guyane staff and elected officials.
- SicovalsignificantIn the framework of Sicoval's Projet Alimentaire Territorial (PAT), the commune of Auzeville-Tolosane mastered 68 hectares of land with Safer Occitanie's support. A call for applications was launched under the PAPRES initiative (Préservation de l'Agriculture périurbaine Respectueuse de l'Environnement et de la Santé).
- CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) / Lab'OTcoreCo-development of the SCO Friches Agricoles project (Space for Climate Observatory), which produced an automated method for pre-identifying agricultural wastelands (friches) using AI (WaSaBI). Project ran from October 2022 to March 2024. Led to the commercial service Izifriche.
- FNSafer (Fédération Nationale des Safer)coreCo-financing partner in the SCO Friches Agricoles project alongside CNES. FNSafer is the national federation of all Safer organizations in France, providing shared methodology and data infrastructure for the friche detection tools.
- INRAE (UMR Tetis)coreResearch partner in the SCO Friches Agricoles project, providing scientific expertise for the methodology of automated agricultural friche detection using satellite data and AI.
- Région OccitaniemajorCo-developer of the Vigifriche collaborative mobile application with Safer Occitanie, providing funding and territorial alignment for agricultural land mapping and friche identification across Occitanie.
- Agence de l'eau Adour-GaronnemajorPartnership convention for protecting water catchments and aquatic environments through better land management. Joint actions include promoting water-efficient farming practices, protecting water intake areas, wetlands and watercourses. Funded up to 50% by the water agency (80% for biodiversity reservoirs such as wetlands). Partners include Safer Occitanie, Safer Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and Safer Rhin-Meuse.
- Terre de Liens OccitaniemajorConvention signed to preserve agricultural land and facilitate access to farmland. Combines Safer Occitanie's land mediation expertise with Terre de Liens' civic land ownership model to support installation of new farmers in rural areas.
- Conseil Départemental du TarnmajorFirst partnership convention signed between the Tarn departmental council and Safer Occitanie to jointly address land development challenges for agricultural and rural spaces in the Tarn. Signed by Christophe Ramond, President of the Tarn Departmental Council, and Dominique Granier, President of Safer Occitanie.
- Conseil Départemental de la LozèremajorAnnual partnership convention for land management on the Lozère territory. Partnership has been active for over 25 years, supporting farmland exchanges, parcel reorganization, and farmland retrocession for agricultural installations. Signed by Sophie Pantel, President of the Lozère Departmental Council, and Dominique Granier.
- DRAAF Occitanie (Direction Régionale de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Forêt)majorCollaboration on agricultural policy, Mediterranean agriculture plan, and joint webinaires on topics such as the Plan for Mediterranean Agriculture and the role of the new DRAAF in Occitanie.
Scale indicators8 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Safer Occitanie competitors and assessment
Company assessmentOthers
- Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne: French water agency partnering with Safer Occitanie on water catchment protection. Comparable as a key institutional funder (50-80% co-funding) for rural land projects tied to environmental protection, and indirectly comparable as a public-mission funding entity in the rural space.
- ASP (Agence de Services et de Paiement): French public agency implementing agricultural and rural policy payments. Comparable as a public-interest entity serving French agricultural land policy with institutional infrastructure across regions.
- DRAAF Occitanie: Regional directorate for food, agriculture, and forestry under the French Ministry of Agriculture, collaborating with Safer Occitanie on policy implementation. Comparable as a key public-sector stakeholder shaping the regional agricultural agenda.
Direct peers
- Safer Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Sister SAFER organization covering Nouvelle-Aquitaine with the same public-interest land operator mandate, transaction volume scale, and departmental service model. Direct comparable in business model, regulatory role, and customer segments.
- Safer Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Regional SAFER covering PACA with the same French state mandate for rural land governance and agricultural installation support. Directly comparable in operations, regulatory environment, and product offerings.
Emerging players
- Terre de Liens: French civic land ownership organization dedicated to preserving agricultural land for new farmers. Comparable in mission focus on farmland preservation and farmer installation, with a complementary (rather than competing) funding model based on donations and citizen equity.
- FEVE: Agritech startup partnering with Safer Occitanie and Safer Nouvelle-Aquitaine on land carrying (portage foncier) and farm transmission solutions. Comparable in the farmland access and transmission space, with a more tech-enabled and capital-backed model.
Regional players
- ADASEA d'Oc: Occitanie-based agricultural development association partnering with Safer Occitanie on land and environmental projects. Comparable as a regional ecosystem player supporting farmland management, water protection, and rural development.
Broad incumbents
- Chambres d'agriculture (France): Public agricultural chambers providing advisory services to farmers across France, including installation support, technical guidance, and territorial development. Comparable in serving farmer customers with public-mission mandate, but broader in scope than Safer's land-transaction focus.
- FNSafer (Fédération Nationale des Safer): National federation of all 17 Safer organizations. Directly comparable as the overarching institution coordinating Safer Occitanie's methodology, data infrastructure, and policy alignment with French state.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Safer Occitanie leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles7 records
Safer Occitanie funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Safer Occitanie M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Safer Occitanie
What does Safer Occitanie do?
Safer Occitanie is a public-interest land operator (Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural) that mediates the rural land market across the 13 departments of the Occitanie region in southern France. It mediates approximately 2,500 land transactions per year (21,300 hectares retroceded, €270M business volume), supports the installation of new farmers, manages farmland sales and rentals, and develops proprietary digital tools such as Izifriche (AI-based detection of agricultural wastelands) and Vigifriche (collaborative mapping app) to support agricultural land preservation, environmental protection, and rural development.
Is Safer Occitanie a public or private company?
Safer Occitanie is a private company. It is classified as nonprofit foundation owned and is currently operating.
When was Safer Occitanie founded?
Safer Occitanie was founded in 2017. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is Safer Occitanie based?
Safer Occitanie is headquartered in Castanet-tolosan, France, in the Europe region.
How does Safer Occitanie make money?
One revenue line is on record: land Transaction Fees.
Who are Safer Occitanie's main competitors?
Others on record are Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne, ASP (Agence de Services et de Paiement) and DRAAF Occitanie. Direct peers are Safer Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Safer Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Emerging players are Terre de Liens and FEVE. ADASEA d'Oc is listed as a regional player. Broad incumbents are Chambres d'agriculture (France) and FNSafer (Fédération Nationale des Safer).
Does Safer Occitanie have an API?
No public API is recorded for Safer Occitanie.
What industry is Safer Occitanie in?
Safer Occitanie's product category is Rural and Agricultural Land Management Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAIANAH, Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management), with a secondary code of AFAAAFAB, Field Mapping, GIS & Remote Sensing Analytics. Its NAICS code is 115116 and its SIC code is 6531.