From ‘weak’ to ‘strong’ multifunctionality: Conceptualising farm-level multifunctional transitional pathways

By G. Wilson. 2008

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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The plurality of values in sustainable agriculture models: diverse lock-in and coevolution patterns (2018, background): “More recently, Wilson (2008) spoke of “weak versus strong multifunctionality,” Horlings and Marsden (2011) of “weak versus strong ecological modernization of agriculture,” and Levidow et al. (2013) of “life sciences versus an agroecology vision.””
Agricultural multifunctionality and farmers' entrepreneurial skills: a study of Tuscan and Welsh farmers (2010, background): “This is particularly so if farm multifunctionality is considered to be a continuous rather than a discrete variable and when multifunctional features may be seen to be present in differing combinations and strength (Wilson, 2008).”
Multifunctional ‘quality’ and rural community resilience (2010, background): “Indeed, declining multifunctional quality is a dynamic process dependent on antecedent conditions and influences from outside forces often beyond the control of rural communities (Wilson 2008b).”
Farm diversification, entrepreneurship and technology adoption : analysis of upland farmers in Wales (2017, background): “These changes imply a broader conception of the ‘post-productivist’ multifunctional rural economy, set in its particular spatial, social and farm household context (Blandford and Hill, 2005; Hodge and Midmore, 2008;Wilson, 2008; Marsden and Sonnino, 2008; Leck et al., 2014).”
European agricultural landscapes, common agricultural policy and ecosystem services: a review (2013, background): “In addition, their behavior is driven by spatial planning and other policies that directly or indirectly affect landscape management, as well as the demand for ecosystem services and the values of those services (Wilson 2008; Zasada 2011; Prager et al. 2012).”
Linking Land Change with Driving Forces and Actors: Four Conceptual Models (2010, background): “Wilson (2008) suggested that it is possible to categorize different farm types (primarily based on farm ownership) along the productivist/ nonproductivist multifunctional spectrum as agents in an overall transition from weak to strong multifunctionality.”
Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems (2016, background): “This also implies a reconfiguration of the farm business model and operations in the direction of multifunctional diversification [11,26,27] and agroecology [28].”
Assessing the sustainability of agritourism in the US: a comparison between agritourism and other farm entrepreneurial ventures (2013, result): “results support the need to recognize the multiple functions that small farmers deliver to society along the production of food and fiber in their path to sustainability (Wilson, 2008).”
Co-producing Transition: Innovation Processes in Farms Adhering to Solidarity-based Purchase Groups (GAS) in Tuscany, Italy (2011, background): “Box schemes represent a pathway node (Wilson, 2008) both for consumers and producers.”
The digital divide: Implications for agribusiness and entrepreneurship. Lessons from Wales (2019, background): “…divide between urban and rural locations (Townsend, Sathiaseelan, Fairhurst, & Wallace, 2013) and there is a growing debate surrounding the challenges faced by rural economies and how these economies can be developed (Marsden, 2016; Marsden & Sonnino, 2008; Wilson, 2008; Winter & Lobley, 2009).”
Strategies of family farms to strengthen their resilience (2010, background): “Finally, maintaining family farms is an important aspect of rural development policy, as these farms play an important role in local communities, rural economies, civic institutions and in maintaining the cultural landscape (Wilson, 2008; Renting et al., 2009).”
Enhancing the Multifunctionality of US Agriculture (2010, unknown): “Increasing plant diversity and perenniality in agroecosystems—informed by ecology, economics, and policy—can increase their multifunctionality relative to more simplified designs that are based on annual field crops (Boody et al. 2005, Wilson 2007).”