This paper proposes a methodological approach for eliciting farmer' utility functions. The methodology is non-interactive, in that the parameters defining the utility function are obtained by observing the actual behavior adopted by farmers without resorting to the use of questions on random...

This paper attempts to improve the awareness in the agricultural economics profession of the potential role that multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques can play in analyzing problems involving several objectives. Important applications of the MCDM techniques to planning and...