Multifunctionality of activities, plurality of identities and new institutional arrangements. Synthesis report.(final report)

The state-of-the-art review of research that was effectuated for Work Package 4 of the MULTAGRI project focused in particular on the conceptualization of multifunctional agriculture (MFA) from a supply-side perspective. This covered research questions related to the multifunctionality of agricultural activities, their degree of dissemination amongst farm households and other categories of rural actors, evidence of their socio-economic and other impacts, the relation with changing rural identities, and the relevance of new territorial and institutional linkages for the study of the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural areas. The analysis was based on a review of relevant research for a selected number of European countries that was laid down in national reports for Italy, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and regional reports for the Nordic countries and for new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe