Maringa (Brazil), November 11th – 14th 2018

1,3 billion active person working in agriculture. Men, women; versatile or specialized workers; family workers, hired workforce (full-time or part-time), entrepreneurs or employees on cooperatives… the professions and statues of workers in agriculture are diverse. That diversity is strongly impacted by structural and technological evolutions, market dynamics, public policies that change the diversity of agricultural models. In other hand, these agricultural models representing work organisation models with specifics skill and knowledge.

Think about the work in agriculture and its evolutions request a combination of different views: employment, work organisation, health and working conditions, professional identities, gender. Several scientific communities deal with these subjects, however they work unconnectedly. Our aim is to promote exchanges between scientific communities and bring them together to build an interdisciplinary framework based on different views to analyse work in agriculture.

The workshop will discuss the scientific landscape of work in agriculture, deepened by a scientometric analysis of the research communities and will initiate the building of a transversal “IAWA” approach of work in agriculture, combining viewpoints, to be tested nearby Maringa in an agricultural region facing changes.

Contacts

Sandra Schiavi (State University Maringa Brazil)  sandraschiavi@gmail.com

Benoît Dedieu (INRA, France) benoit.dedieu@inra.fr