Individuals' opinion on agricultural multifunctionality

Measuring Individual Preferences for Rural Multifunctionality: The Importance of Demographic and Residential Heterogeneity

“…(2010), who explore public preferences for rural policy in Scotland, and Park and Selman (2011), who analyse public attitudes toward rural landscape change in England. Other studies closely related to our research are those by Gómez‐Limón and Atance (2004) and Vera‐Toscano et al. (2007), who investigate individuals’ opinions about agricultural multifunctionality in different Spanish regions and Gómez‐Limón et al.…”

Valuation of ecosystem services provided by irrigated rice agriculture in Thailand: a choice experiment considering attribute nonattendance

“…The demand for ecosystem services provided by agriculture (ES‐A) has already been studied generally for an evaluation of agriculture's multifunctionality (OECD, ). However, most studies have been conducted in developed countries characterized by very small agricultural sectors in terms of both population and GNP shares (Campbell, ; Kallas et al., ; Vera‐Toscano et al., ) and, to the best of our knowledge, no such evaluation has been conducted in less developed countries. Yet, the case of emergent middle‐income countries is of particular interest because the economic contributions (employment, GNP) from the agricultural sector usually decline with development.…”

Exploring multifunctional agriculture. A review of conceptual approaches and prospects for an integrative transitional framework

“…While much lip service is paid in policy to justify the attention for non-productive functions of agriculture in general terms, it can be questioned to what extent governments actually know which (public) goods and services the citizen / consumer wants agriculture to provide. There are some interesting attempts that start addressing the role of consumers and citizens in MFA by applying different methodological approaches such as economic valuation techniques (Madureira et al, 2007, see also Section 2.1), surveys (Boulanger et al, 2004;Vera Toscano et al, 2005;Hyytiä and Kola, 2006;Stobbelaar et al, 2006) and expert panels (Parra-Ló pez et al, 2008;Hall et al, 2004). However, these studies often run counter to methodological complications or lack of data availability and generally approach consumers and citizens on an individualized basis.…”