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The convergence policy in agriculture, existing in many forms, has globally become one of the main concepts in agricultural development with the "sixth industrial movement" in South Korea and Japan; the multifunctional agriculture (MFA) policies proposed by van der Ploeg and Roep being good examples. The goal of this study is to test three hypotheses through the economic valuation of MFA. In the first part of the research, the importance of agricultural production activity and the core element of the rural complex were evaluated. In the second part, an assessment of three strategies of MFA and its eleven specific attributes was conducted. In the third part, the applicability of the triangular policy of van der Ploeg's strategic frameworks of MFA was analysed.

This article focuses on recent initiatives to promote wine tourism in the Kōfu Basin in Yamanashi Prefecture in order to analyse the ongoing process of regional revitalization in Japan. Based on long-term field research in the area, the article argues that wine tourism is a contested field, in which national and prefectural policy initiatives clash with the local history of grape and wine production, as well as pre-existing and emerging local initiatives to link wine production and tourism. Moreover, the article shows that both grape production and the local wine industry are patterned alongside a complicated patchwork of socio-spatial boundaries within and across municipal and cooperative boundaries in the Kōfu Basin, thus complicating both private and public efforts to promote wine tourism.

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