This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development - undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).

1. A New Approach to Multifunctionality, Sustainable Rural Development, and Analysis of Policy Outcomes John M. Bryden, Amaia Arandia, Liam Dunne and Karlheinz Knickel 2. Exploring Inter-Relationships between the Multiple Functions of Farming, the Development of Rural Regions, and Policies: Theory and Methodology John M. Bryden, Thomas Dax, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tom Johnson and Karen Refsgaard 3. Overview of the Regions Studied: A Context Analysis Karen Refsgaard, Atilla Jambor and Arild Spissøy 4. Multifunctionality in Agriculture and Rural Development: An Empirical Analysis Based on Survey Data from Eleven European Regions Karlheinz Knickel, Kerstin Lehmann and Melanie Kroeger 5. Developing and Adapting the POMMARD Model Tom Johnson, Sara Alva-Lizarraga, Karen Refsgaard, Thanassos Kampas, Demetris Psaltopoulos and Gemma Frances 6. Future Policy Scenarios Kenneth J. Thomson, John M. Bryden and Demetris Psaltopoulos 7. Farming, Multifunctionality and Regional Development in a Remote Rural Region: Trikala, Greece Sophia Efstratoglou, Demetris Psaltopoulos, Elias Giannakis, Athanasios Kampas and Christos Papadas 8. What Agrarian Policy for an Extensive Agricultural Area: The Case of Berguedà, Spain Lourdes Viladomiu, Gemma Francès and Jordi Rosell 9. Multifunctionality and Development in a Typical Agricultural Region: Bács-Kiskun, Hungary Tibor Ferenczi, Attila Jámbor and Krisztina Fodor 10. Rural Development and Multifunctionality in a Region with Unlimited Demand for Labour - The Norwegian Case Study Karen Refsgaard and Arild Spissøy 11. The Wetteraukreis in Germany - A Metropolitan Countryside Area That Connects the Urban and the Rural Karlheinz Knickel, Susanne von Muenchhausen, Melanie Kroeger and Holger Bergmann 12. Agriculture and Tourism in a Remote, Sparsely Populated Area - Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland, UK Holger Bergmann and Kenneth J. Thomson 13. Comparing the Outcomes of CAP Policy Reform Scenarios: Analysis of POMMARD Results and DEA Analysis Tibor Ferenczi, Kenneth J. Thomson and John M. Bryden 14. Implications for Policy Kenneth J. Thomson and John M. Bryden 15. Accommodating Multifunctionality in Policy Frameworks: Implications for Research Luca Juvancic, Thomas Dax, Karlheinz Knickel and Maria Giuseppina Eboli 16. Multifunctionality, Sustainable Territorial Development and Rural Policies in Europe - Some Concluding Reflections John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tom Johnson, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Karen Refsgaard and Kenneth J. Thomson