In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained relatively undertheorised and poorly linked to wider debates in the social sciences. Using a novel approach based on transition theory, this book establishes a link between multifunctionality and debates on the postulated transition towards 'post-productivism'. It argues that multifunctionality can best be understood as a spectrum of decision-making bounded by productivist and non-productivist action and thought and that this normative assessment of multifunctionality better encapsulates the current complexity of agricultural and rural change. Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective will be an invaluable resource to decision-makers in contemporary agricultural and rural spaces, and to researchers and students in social sciences, agriculture and the rural sector. Book jacket.