农业多功能性是指农业生产所具有的经济、生态、文化、环境等多重功能。国外关于农业多功能性的理解不一,而国内主要是围绕农业多功能性的内涵与意义、价值表现、对发达国家的经验借鉴等方面进行论述。主要经历了起源、发展和应用三个演化阶段。在农业多功能性的理解和应用方面,主要形成了三个不同的集团:持反对意见的美国和部分凯恩斯集团成员;持认同态度的日韩欧盟等发达国家;既支持又有反时意见的以巴西、印度为代表的发展中国家。未来农业多功能性这一领域的研究主要集中在以下三点:第一,加强对非贸易关注、联合生产等核心问题的研究,并加强相关实证分析;第二,从战略高度,关注粮食安全和农业的可持续发展;第三,以农业多功能性为都市农业发展的切入点,引导农业可持续发展的新趋势。
Multifunctional agriculture refers to the multiple functions of agricultural production with economic, ecological. cultural, environmental and other. Understanding of foreign agricultural versatility is different, but domestic discourse has being done mostly around the meaning and significance , performance of value of the agricultural versatility, Experience of developed countries. The agricultural versatility of evolution has gone through three stages: the origin, development and application. Three different groups have formed in aspect of the understanding and application of the agricultural versatility which are the dissenting member of The United Stales and part of the Cairns Group, Japan and South Korea and the EU and other eveloped countries holding favorable attitude toward and Brazil, India on behalf of developing countries supporting both have opposing views. Future research in this area of the agricultural versatility of the main focus on the following three: Strengthen the core issues such as non-trade concerns and joint production and strengthen the empirical analysis; We pay attention to food security and sustainable agricultural development from a strategic perspective: We may guide the sustainable development of agriculture, a new trend making agricultural versatility as the starting point for the development of urban agriculture.