WG8 – How effectively can production systems attract workers and support decent work?
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WG8 – How effectively can production systems attract workers and support decent work?

WG8 – How effectively can production systems attract workers and support decent work?

This working group explores effects of the on-going transformations of different production systems (animals and/or crops, pasture based or housing system, etc.) in countries of the Global North and South on the attractiveness of work and support of decent work. It analyses the diversity of forms of work related to the production systems considering different challenges (work organisation, productivity, labour flexibility, capacity to transform, etc.), effects of technical choices (combination of production, livestock and crop management, processing and marketing) on work, discussing also frameworks, concepts and methodologies. Contributions from diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome.

Convenors: Marion Beecher (SETU, Ireland), Nathalie Hostiou (INRAE, France) 

Australian farmers’ people management practices and progress toward ‘employers of choice’   
Ruth Nettle, Sally Murfett, Danielle England, Claudia Mitchell    
 

Does nobody want to work in the countryside? Know-how, working conditions, and consent in 21st-century Argentine livestock farming.   
Bruno Capdevielle   

 

The Craft of Alpine Farming: A New Typology for Workers on Alpine Farms    
Alexander Röösli, Sandra Contzen    
 

Calf Care Labour Allocation on Pasture-Based Dairy Farms in Ireland   
Cornelius O'Leary, Monica Gorman, Marion Beecher, Conor Hogan   
 

In search of an ideal model for collective work organisation on collective farms: dream or reality?    
Nathalie Hostiou, Christine Léger-Bosch, Laurant Delphine    

 

When data comes to the sheepfold: uses of digital tools in sheep farming  
Nouria Compaoré, Philippe Jeanneaux, Nathalie Hostiou  
 

Transforming the agricultural workscape – learning from forms of Community Supported Agriculture in Germany?   
Anna Zimmer 
 

Analyse comparative de la qualité du travail et de l'emploi dans les systèmes rizicoles agroécologiques et conventionnels du lac de Guiers. 
EL HADJI KABE GAYE, Aida Mbaye DEME, Pape Bilal Diakhate, Mor NGOM1
 

Working conditions along installation trajectories of itinerant sheep farmers : 2 case studies   
Valentin Clerget, Philippe Lescoat, Lorène Prost, Solène Pissonnier
 

Publication date: 11 September 2026 | By: I Avelange