to understand the causes of change.
Some of the issues identified through community participation and through literature
review that directly affect agricultural land-use decisions, such as preservation of ALR and
intensity factors, were considered for inclusion in the set of questions that user groups
could explore in developing their future scenarios. The issues were translated to questions
and possible responses in ways that were easily understandable by users. The set of
questions and responses that were implemented in AgFutures are listed in Table 2. The
choices are mainly related to local agricultural development issues. The responses chosen