The changing role of agriculture in rural areas is further enhanced by new migration flows from urban areas to rural areas and by policy changes. Partly due to the difficulties with overproduction, the CAP considers farmers now both as producers of food and as managers of the countryside. Besides, the emphasize in EU policies is moving towards regionalization and integration of existing policy measures. For rural areas these policies may emerge into an approach of an integrated rural policy. Such an approach implies that agriculture is seen as indissolubly linked with the other sectors of the rural economy.