Towards 1970 appears gradualy a new trend of the French agricultural structure policy, simultaneously with the birth of a country planning policy. Concerning landownership, the policy of helping the farmers to buy the land declines in favour of a policy who attempts to attract non-farmers invests. Farming becomes a plurality of activities, i.e. the agricultural policy accepts the compatibility of agricultural and non-agricultural activities ; a policy of rejuvenating the farmers is connected to an increasing care of local population equilibrium ; farming becomes a more vocational activity ; at the same time the farming definition includes more and more the target of maintening rural spaces. All these new practices induce progressively the concept of specific action areas. By this way, the agricultural structure policy, properly so called, becomes in connection with the course of country planning policy who attempts to organize the diffusion of urbanization through rural space as to distribute whole of national activities.
