Landscape is a multi-functional regional complex. Human activities are mostly carried out at the landscape level. Agricultural landscape is a complex social ecological system. For a long time, agricultural development has emphasized the single function utilization of cultivated land, ignored the endogenous power of cultivated land utilization, resulting in the increasingly serious problems of agricultural marginalization, rural recession and environmental degradation in China. Multifunctional agricultural landscape is the spatial representation of multi-functionality of agriculture at landscape scale, which has a variety of important non-economic functions, such as biodiversity protection, rural landscape preservation and regional cultural heritage. The construction of multifunctional agricultural landscape is an important way to promote the sustainable development of regional agriculture and improvement of human well-being. Based on the existing research paradigm of landscape ecology, this study discussed the connotation of multi-functional agricultural landscape, summarized the international and domestic research trends, and put forward a new study paradigm of pattern-function-demand-management. As the same time, the conceptual framework of this new research paradigm was also deeply discussed. According to the four modules of the framework, we further analyzed how to construct, evaluate and manage the multifunctional agricultural landscape in different cases. The purpose of the study was to lay a research foundation for the sustainable development of regionally agricultural landscape, and provide a theoretical basis for clarifying the internal operation mechanism of multi-functional agricultural landscape. It will provide support for solving the key problems of rural ecological landscape construction and the practical construction of multi-functional agricultural landscape.