Agricultural multifunctionality in the WTO—legitimate non-trade concern or disguised protectionism?

By C. Potter, Jonathan Burney. 2002

287 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Political Science and International Relations

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. D. Maye
2. R. Sonnino
3. B. Ilbery
4. G. Wilson
5. T. Marsden
6. Mark Tilzey
7. Carol Richards
8. H. Bjørkhaug

In Plant Science

1. R. Sonnino
2. D. Maye
3. B. Ilbery
4. G. Wilson
5. T. Marsden
6. Mark Tilzey
7. H. Bjørkhaug
8. D. Watts

In Political Science and International Relations

1. G. Wilson
2. D. Maye
3. B. Ilbery
4. Mark Tilzey
5. T. Marsden
6. C. Potter

Citations in the corpus

• Reshaping agri-environmental subsidies: From marginal farming to large-scale rewilding (2015, background): “…increasingly use the ‘multifunctionality’ concept, which points to the contribution of agriculture not only in terms of producing food, but also in terms of food security, rural development, sustaining rural landscapes, generating employment and environmental protection (Potter & Burney, 2002).”
• Making reconnections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision (2005, background): “Thus, the extent to which new alternative systems of food provision are generating additional sales of local produce, as opposed to providing new outlets for it, is unclear.”
• Multifunctionality of Agriculture:A Review of Definitions, Evidence and Instruments (2007, background): “Also Potter and Burney (2002) and Potter (2006) conclude that, although multifunctionality is a genuine, but in some respects, unique, feature of European agriculture, it receives its full meaning in relation to the perceived threat of extensive agricultural restructuring to biodiversity and…”
• Multifunctional ‘quality’ and rural community resilience (2010, background): “Recently, researchers have begun to acknowledge that there may be different levels or ‘qualities’ of multifunctionality (e.g. Potter and Burney 2002; Hollander 2004), and the notion of a ‘multifunctionality spectrum of decision-making’, ranging from weak to strong multifunctionality associated with…”
• Food supply chains and sustainability: evidence from specialist food producers in the Scottish/English borders (2005, background): “For some researchers, these collective developments signify the emergence of a new ‘ecological paradigm’ for rural development, leaving behind agricultural modernisation to create a more multifunctional rural space (Ploeg et al., 2000; Potter and Burney, 2002; Goodman, 2004).”
• What does the public want from agriculture and the countryside? A review of evidence and methods (2004, background): “Such preferences may in fact highlight the stark policy tradeoffs that some architects of multifunctionality seem reluctant to contemplate (Potter and Burney, 2002).”
• Multifunctional agriculture in policy and practice? A comparative analysis of Norway and Australia (2008, background): “Looking into the policy level first—multifunctionality is recognised as a key policy concept in World Trade Organisation (WTO)-policy negotiations (Potter and Burney, 2002).”
• Rural development and the regional state: Denying multifunctional agriculture in the UK (2008, background): “At the EU level, this view has informed the Agenda 2000 reforms, which propose a model for change, often upheld as ‘‘European Model of Agriculture’’ ( Potter and Burney, 2002: 35; Potter and Tilzey, 2005), designed to safeguard farming ‘‘because of its multifunctional nature and the part it plays i”
• Agricultural policy discourses in the European post-Fordist transition: neoliberalism, neomercantilism and multifunctionality (2005, background): “…been linked to the defence of an exceptionalist 'European Model of Agriculture' within the WTO, special by virtue of the close linkage between farming and the output of a range ofjointly produced multifunctions and its vulnerability to policy retrenchment (Potter and Burney, 2002; Hollander, 2004).”