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24 October 2025

Austria Room FAO, Rome or ZOOM

side event "Importance of employment data for shaping agricultural an food policies in sub-saharan Africa

The side event is organized by CIRAD, CARE, ILO, IFAD, and FAO for the 53th Comittee for Food Security. The session will explore the importance of employment data for shaping agricultural and food policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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03 October 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter August 2025

7 news, 1 calls for papers and several publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from decent work, safety on work, mental health, and income
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03 October 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter September 2025

9 news, 3 congress and webinars, 1 calls for papers and several publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from migration, labor supply in value chains, gender, and mental health.
event From 09 Sept. 2025 to 15 Sept. 2025

Kigali, Rwanda

call for papers ANAPRI-World Bank conference : "Leveraging the Agrifood System for Jobs"

More and better job creation tops policymakers’ agenda globally. The Agrifood System (AFS) is at the heart of this agenda. ANAPRI and the World Bank are excited to announce a call for papers on “Leveraging the AFS for Jobs” to be presented on November 3, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda during a pre-conference to the 12th Annual ANAPRI Stakeholders Conference (4-6 November 2025).
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04 December 2025

Webinar

IAWA Webinar "Working conditions and mobility of migrants in the agricultural and food sector, in a context of diverse policies"

The International Association on Work in Agriculture (IAWA) proposes a webinar to address this topic on working conditions and mobility of migrant agricultural workers in host countries and the threats implied by current policies on the continuity of farming activities, particularly the labour-intensive ones.
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13 August 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter July 2025

19 news, 6 congress, 8 calls for papers and several publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from decent work, emotional work, gender, and farming systems
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11 July 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

decent work in agriculture

This policy brief, published in the French Development Agency's (AFD) Policy Dialogues collection, looks at decent work in agriculture through the prism of family organisation of work and production models in Africa. It follows on from the international conference on the future of work and employment in the agricultural sector in West Africa
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11 July 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter June 2025

16 news, 2 congress, 3 calls for papers and 17 publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from decent work, migrant workers and gender.
event From 11 June 2025 to 29 Aug. 2025

Zollikofen, Switzerland

Call for Working groups 3rd International Symposium on Work in Agriculture 2026

Call for Working Groups Addressing current and future challenges of work in agriculture: research, policy and practice for the International Symposium on Work in Agriculture, 7-10 July 2026 Berne, Switzerland
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05 June 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

NewsletterMay2025

4 news, 8 congress, 2 calls for papers and 23 publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from decent work, migrant workers to mental health and gender.
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23 May 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

NewsletterApril2025

8 news, 9 congress, 3 calls for papers and 10 publications on the theme of work in agriculture, from labour, migrant workers to mental health and farm injury.
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15 May 2025

By: Sandra Schiavi, Isabelle Avelange

SOBER (Brazil) and IAWA: possibilities of collaboration and partnership

Representatives of IAWA (International Association on Work in Agriculture) and SOBER (Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Administration and Sociology) boards discussed the possibilities of collaboration and partnership between the two institutions, during a virtual meeting on May 6th.
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18 April 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

5 new members on the IAWA Board

The association strengthens ties with Europe, Africa and Oceania. Welcome to Pierre Girard (Cirad), David Meredith (Teagasc), Ibrahima Diallo (ISRA), Wendy Geza (UKZN), Callum Eastwood (Dairy NZ).
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03 April 2025

By: Priscila Malanski; Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter March

25 publications, 3 calls for papers, 8 events in Africa, America and Europe and 14 news items on work in agriculture.
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19 March 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter February

More than 30 articles, news congresses, calls and publications on work in agriculture! Zoom in: New article in a special issue coordinated by IAWA members - Beyond income: Professional objectives and job satisfaction of farmers. An empirical study in France
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12 February 2025

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter November-December

21 articles about news and Publications on work and workers in agriculture - Farm households’ social and economic needs and the future of agriculture: introduction to the symposium - Towards a theory of pastoralist and rancher identity: insights for understanding livestock systems in transformation - Navigating a gendered ecosystem: the role of entrepreneurial capital in the business strategies of singleowner women farmers - Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab - Will agricultural digitalization deliver relative advantages in quality of work, productivity, profitability, return on investments, and reliability? Perceptions of Canadian producers - The Change towards the Integration of Agri-environmental Practices (CIAEP) into farmer’s practices system: An affective, cognitive, and behavioural process - Facilitating generational renewal in rural areas by responding to young farmers’ voices: Echoes from the Greek territory - Promoting Workplace Health, Safety, and Well-Being Among Essential Agricultural Workers Through Vaccine- Preventable Infectious Diseases Training in the Rio Grande Valley - L’organisation du travail agricole des agriculteurs pluriactifs en Nord-Pas-de-Calais - Prospective AgroEco2050 : quel impact macroéconomique d’une transition complète vers l'agroécologie ? - A Mixed Methods Assessment of an Online Mental Health and Resilience Program for Agricultural Sector Students - “The Source of All My Joy and All My Stress”: Children and Childcare as Underappreciated Sources of Stress
rethinking generational renewal
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26 March 2025

Brussels, Maison Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Rethinking generational renewal: the European agricultural workforce in a changing world

INRAE invite you to the conference "Rethinking generational renewal: the European agricultural workforce in a changing world", on 26 March (1pm-6pm)
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event From 07 July 2025 to 11 July 2025

Riga

ESRS Congress 2025

Registration is open! The 2025 ESRS conference will take up the theme of Navigating rural transitions: Exploring liveable futures. Among all the working groups, some IAWA members are organizing a group on "Intersections of life and work in agriculture: Exploring how to create livable ‘presents’ and futures"
event From 14 Jan. 2025 to 15 Jan. 2025

Dakar, Sénégal ; Hotel Ndiambour

International conference on the future of work and employment in the agricultural sector in West Africa

The agricultural and agri-food sector has a crucial role to play in West Africa in providing decent, attractive jobs for young people.
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02 October 2024

By: Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter September

News: [Replay] Méthodes et outils d'accompagnement pour optimiser son organisation du travail en s'appuyant sur le collectif; 66ᵃ Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe; Training on Applying the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) tool; Closing the Gender Gap in African Food Systems: Pathways to Transformation; [SPACE 2024] Femmes en Elevage : Les spécificités de l'accès et de l'exercice des métiers de l'élevage au féminin Publications: - The Health and Well-Being of Women in Farming: A Systematic Scoping Review - Rendering smallholders social: Taking a social relations approach to understanding the persistence of smallholders in the rural Global South - The effects of board gender quotas: A meta-analysis - Work-life balance on a farm with young children in Slovenia - Depression, Anxiety, and Coping Strategies Among Farmworkers Exposed to Substance Use at Work - Aimer son travail nuit-il à la santé ?
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18 September 2024

By: Priscila Malanski, Isabelle Avelange

Newsletter August

- Perte du repos le dimanche pour les ouvriers agricoles ramassant à la main dans les champs - Sans papiers mais pas sans travail en replay - Lancement du cahier des charges “Management des exploitations viticoles” en Champagne-Ardenne - Déclic travail - The heat equation .... Publications - There and Back Again: Dynamics of Temporary Labour Migration, Insights from Rural India - Women’s Work in Livestock Raising: Evidence from Time Use Surveys in India - The impact of labor force aging on agricultural total factor productivity of farmers in China: implications for food sustainability
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