Understanding farmers’ values regarding biodiversity conservation, and how these values inform land use decisions within and around farms is essential because of the amount of land under agricultural production regionally and globally. New research within the emerging context of relational values offers a nuanced perspective that can deepen our understanding of farmer values and subsequent decision making, with direct applications to agricultural policy. Here we provide an initial review of some of the relational values articulated for agricultural systems associated with biodiversity conservation in a diverse literature. We illustrate that these relational values are complex, contribute to the maintenance of multifunctional landscapes, and frequently do not adequately intersect with current conservation policy. We use the literature to identify new areas of conservation biology and sustainability science research that might bridge this gap by understanding farmer’s values in relation to conservation policy in multifunctional agricultural landscapes.

由于区域和全球农业生产的土地数量众多，因此了解农民关于生物多样性保护的价值观以及这些价值观如何影响农场内部和周围的土地使用决策至关重要。在关系价值的新兴背景下进行的新研究提供了一种细微的观点，可以加深我们对农民价值和随后的决策的理解，并将其直接应用于农业政策。在这里，我们对各种文献中与生物多样性保护相关的农业系统表达的一些相关价值进行了初步回顾。我们说明，这些关系值是复杂的，有助于维护多功能景观，并且经常与当前的保护政策没有足够的交集。