@article{Anderson:117848,
      recid = {117848},
      author = {Anderson, Kym},
      title = {Agriculture's 'multifunctionality' and the WTO},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2000},
      number = {428-2016-27671},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {Are the agricultural policy reforms embodied in the  Uruguay Round consistent with meeting domestic policy  objectives such as providing adequate food security,  environmental protection and viability of rural areas? This  article examines the claim that agriculture deserves more  price support and import protection than other sectors  because of the non‐marketed externalities and public goods  it produces jointly with marketable food and fibre  (agriculture’s so‐called ‘multifunctionality’). Do these  unrewarded positive externalities exceed the negative  externalities from farming by more than the net positive  externalities produced by other sectors? To what extent are  those farmer‐produced spillovers under‐supplied, and what  are the most efficient ways to boost their production to  the socially optimal levels? The article concludes that  there is little trade‐off required to meet domestic policy  objectives on the one hand and agricultural protection  reform objectives as embodied in WTO rules on the other.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117848},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.117848},
}