officials responsible for making policy decisions. VanWynsberghe et al. [16] describe in
detail the workshop process for community engagement in the design of archetypes or
potential alternatives for future scenarios. A preliminary list of sustainability concerns or
objectives as identified in the community workshops is given in Table 1.
In addition to community workshops, literature review and analysis of past agricultural
trends were also carried out to enhance the list of potential issues and outcomes, as well as
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