The Multifunctional Attributes of Northeastern Agriculture: A Research Agenda

The Multifunctional Attributes of Northeastern Agriculture: A Research Agenda

In the United States’ Northeastern region, there is an increasing interest in the public benefits from agriculture. These benefits are frequently referred to as multifunctional attributes. The policy challenge is to find an effective way to reflect these public demands so that multifunctional agriculture can be profitable. There is a significant research agenda that accompanies this challenge. ...

Multifunctional Agriculture: Agriculture Renewal as a Modern Paradigm for Agriculture and Rural Development

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

Developing a Research Agenda for the Analysis of Product Supply: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

The paper looks at the OECD domestic political economy associated to ongoing WTO farm negotiations, focusing on the OECD-based coalitions which could be helpful for WTO negotiators. Support from individual final consumers and taxpayers is far from being guaranteed–because consumers are spending less and less on food, and because taxpayers support, more or less willingly, non-trade concerns, suc...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor