2. Multifunctionality of agriculture (MOA) The concept of Multifunctionality of agriculture A first appeared in the international community at the Rio Conference in 1992. In 1995, the term ‘multifunctionality’ was first used officially during the 50th-anniversary commemoration ministerial meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held in Quebec, Canada (Kang, 2007). A..

3.3 Differences between Multifunctional agriculture and Multifunctionality of agriculture Multifunctionality of agriculture and Multifunctional agriculture are clearly distinguished. Multifunctionality of agriculture is defined as the numerous benefits in agriculture which may have multiple outputs and accordingly may contribute to the achievement of several societal objectives at once (OECD, 20..

3.1 Multifunctional agriculture’s definition In 1998, the EU funded a study (the EU IMPACT study) aiming to investigate the extent of diversification in the EU farms. Since then, numerous studies have been carried out on this topic with the same purpose. In 2003, with the completion of the LEADER programme, the discussion on utilizing the Multifunctionality of agriculture appeared during a scien..