Newsletter February

Newsletter February

More than 30 articles, news congresses, calls and publications on work in agriculture! Zoom in: ISWA 2026 - Registration is OPEN!

News

- Le changement climatique aggrave la pénibilité du travail agricole

- FOCUS : Emploi et productivité en agriculture

- Modification des régimes alimentaires et besoins en main-d’œuvre à l’horizon 2030

- Anticiper son temps de travail, un point essentiel de l’installation

- Quand circuits courts et transformation à la ferme rendent le métier de paysan « attractif »

- Conjoints collaborateurs, en 2026, vous devrez faire un choix

- « Au service de remplacement aussi, pas facile d’être une femme »

- Salarié.e, une diversité de métiers au service de l’élevage

- Kit d'animation de réunion avec des éleveurs pour parler de travail dans un collectif, avec des salariés et des

associés

- Projet DIANGA2 : quatre sessions de formation achevées pour booster l’employabilité des jeunes dans

l’agriculture et l’agroalimentaire

- Labour costs and availability continue to challenge horticulture sector

- Uzbekistan’s cotton reforms: Progress on forced labour, but not yet on freedom of association

- IUF Delegation meets ILO Director General to Urge Stronger ILO Action on Rural Workers’ Rights

- Decent work for agricultural workers is central to ending child labour

- Fostering Equitable Agrifood Systems Driven by Gender-Responsive Policies

- The IUF raises alarm over apparent proposal to downgrade rural employment at the ILO


Congress and conference

- ISWA 2026 - Registration is OPEN!

- SafeHabitus Webinar | Systemic time pressure: a cause and consequence of farm OSH challenges

- SafeHabitus Webinar | Defining safety and health management priority needs in agriculture

- SafeHabitus Webinar | Conducting a risk assessment in practice

- SafeHabitus Policy Workshop| Reducing farm vehicle and machinery related accidents in agriculture with new

technologies | SafeHabitus

- Corps, genre et travail agricole

- Webinaire - Femmes en élevage : regards croisés pour lancer l’année internationale des agricultrices

- [Pause travail] Les conditions d'exercice du travail des gardien·nes de troupeaux en estive


Call for Papers
- Safety, health, and well-being of women in agriculture

- Le travail im/mobile : circulations, dépendance et droits des travailleuses et travailleurs subalternes



Publications

- Review: Attracting and retaining a farm workforce for the pork industry

- Depression in farming families: A systematic review

- Trabalho Decente No Brasil: Um Estudo Das Condições De Trabalho De Assalariados Na Agropecuária Na Região Sul

- Smart farming technologies and changes to farm work: New insights into on-farm experiences

- Quantitative methodologies to assess sleep, wellbeing and physical health in dairy farm workplaces

- Work Stress Mapping of Farmers in Jember Regency- Semantic Variances in Career Expectations among Stakeholders in the Agricultural Sector: Opportunities and Challenges

- The impact of agri-environmental measures on farms’ costs, labour and income

- Policy Brief – Employers and compliance with labour standards in agriculture. Social conditionality and incentive mechanisms in Italy - DignityFIRM

- The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

- The impact of migration experience of rural labour on income inequality

- Environmental, economic, and social impacts of precision agricultural technology: Convergences and divergences between theory and practice

- COVID-19 as a catalyst for re-regulating migrant labour in the German meat industry - DignityFIRM

- Young Farmers and Mental Health: A Systematic Scoping Review

- Social norms enable rural collective action: an example from weed management in Australia

- Does rural out-migration contribute to cropland-use intensification transition? Evidence from cropping farms in China

- Contract Labour, Job Quality and Turnover Intention—Evidence From Nigeria

- Labor endowment, productive services and farmers' adoption of ecological agriculture: Taking rice-crayfish co-culture model as an example

- Tracing young people's entry and retention in the Australian agriculture sector: A longitudinal analysis of rural employment pathways

- Work posture, ergonomic risk, and musculoskeletal disorders in traditional farming communities of Rajasthan

- Are Milking Management Technologies Increasing the Labor Efficiency, Productivity and Profitability of Pasture-Based Dairy Farms? Evidence from Ireland

- Organic crop farming in the European Union: Impacts on farm-level input costs, labour, and income 

- Unpacking women farmers: a quantitative analysis of identities, activities, and attitudes from Iowa

- Investigating the roles and challenges of female extension workers: a systematic review

- Known but ignored. Labour and living conditions of migrant workers in agriculture. DignityFIRM

- Contester l’ordre du genre des mondes agricoles depuis le travail

- L’installation en élevage en France : enjeux et agenda de recherche

- D. Jacques-Jouvenot, Y. Martin, (dir.), Santé et mal-être en agriculture, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2025, 72 pages