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Title: MULTI-FUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE HABIBULLAH MAGSI
Author : Pakistan & Gulf Economist
Release Date : January 26, 2010
Genre: Economics,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
Pages : * pages
Size : 55 KB

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The challenge posed by the recognition of multi-functionality of agriculture has now reached up to the doors of international negotiations, because the agriculture and agricultural activities are not only producing food and other raw materials for industries in any region, but also goods and multiple services, market values, and environmental, economic, social values are also being produced by the sector. This fact of multi-functionality of agriculture is not new, because always agriculture is both a producer and a market, which is deeply rooted in a territory, where it operates, manages, develops and ensures the benefits as well as the quality of life of its citizens. However, in previous decades the market orientation was favoured and accompanied by strong government intervention, allowing for significant gains in productivity to ensure food self-sufficiency and develop the agri-food sector. For twenty years, in a context of self-sufficiency among developed world, export to world markets has increased, but reduced the number of farmers and created boundary lines between agriculture and society, where the other functions of agriculture did not take advantage of meaning and significance. In addition, the policy choice always refuses to separate the domestic functions and functions of agriculture and its markets but the multi-functionality of agriculture strives to integrate these different functions at the farm and the territory. These functions harmoniously combine the economic, ecological and social development for sustainable agriculture and territories as well as benefits for adverse impacts associated with certain forms of economic development.