English to Italian Social Sciences Agriculture

A Rural Cultural Forum (RCF) was set up in 2007, as a cultural advocacy and lobby for farming culture and creative rural communities. The RCF proposed three main arguments in support of a national rural cultural strategy:

1. Creative rural communities and the agricultural sector – with some modest arts investment – have the potential to generate in excess of € 1 billion per year for the UK economy.

2. Agriculture and rural development policy (in England) have been for too long closed off to mainstream cultural policy and ** arts funding discourses **. Consequently they have not benefited fully from national strategic culture-led investment programmes.