TY - BOOK ED - Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos. ED - Future of Rural Policy Conference TI - The Future of rural policy: from sectoral to place-based policies in rural areas SN - 9264100830 AV - HD 1415 F88.2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Paris PB - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development KW - Desarrollo rural - KW - Países de la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico - KW - Congresos KW - Diversificación agrícola - KW - Países de la OCDE - KW - Países de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos KW - Condiciones rurales - N1 - Incluye bibliografía N2 - In the past two decades, rural policy has undergone significant developments. According to the principal conclusions of the international conference, The Future of Rural Policy, the major shift necessary to guarantee the future vitality of rural regions is the diversification of their economies. This conference, held in Siena, Italy on 10-13 July 2002, identified the need for rural policies to go beyond agriculture and offer new trajectories of development for rural areas. The end result is a new approach to rural areas that recognizes the importance of the interdependence between rural and urban areas, mobilizes investment (rather than distributing subsidies), and expands the definition of countryside ER -