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Abstract
The objective of this paper is to deeply analyze some of the theoretical and
methodological implications linked to the definition, the characterization, the
evaluation and the estimation of the economic results of a multifunction agricultural
farm. A deep study of these aspects seems essential for two reasons. On one hand,
society is pressing farms to enlarge the existing set of goods and services; on the other
hand, sector policies offer to farms new opportunities, which regard the allocation of
services linked to the different functions that agriculture is able to carry out. In these
conditions, in order to make the entrepreneur able to decide which services to set in
motion, considering the economical input that their activation could bring to the farm,
it is fundamental to identify an analytic method that is capable to estimate and evaluate
the economic results of a multifunction farm.