Le travail, sujet intime et multifacette : premières recommandations pour l’aborder dans le conseil en élevage

Kling‐Eveillard, Florence; Cerf, M.; Chauvat, Sophie; Sabatte, N.

doi:10.20870/productions-animales.2012.25.2.3209

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“…Work is multifaceted (Kling-Eveillard et al 2012). It can be regarded as an organization structuring a variety of farming or private activities over a period of time, a resource to be optimized with economic competitiveness in mind, or a profession which builds the personal and professional identity of the livestock farmer (Dedieu and Servière 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It sheds new lights on the farmer's perception of his work, and on his ability to analyze and change his system. Other disciplines have been used to analyze and complete WAM data, with more sociological and psychological approaches (meaning of the job, work representation, suffering at work Fiorelli et al 2012;Kling-Eveillard et al 2012;Porcher 2017), or ergonomic approaches (Sarzeaud and Chauvat 2011).…”

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Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Cournut

Chauvat

Correa

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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All over the world, farmers have to face up to increasing uncertainties (market and climate). They have to adapt their activity to the new contexts and challenges of livestock farming (producing more and better, and satisfying the expectations of society, consumers, and of downstream operators), while at the same time responding to their own expectations in terms of income, quality of life, and working conditions. In order to understand these changes and consider the future, work organization must be taken into account. The Work Assessment Method, developed by French livestock researchers, provides a framework able to capture work organization, taking into account the specifics of the livestock activity. Based on a comparative analysis of nine case studies that used the Work Assessment Method from six contrasted countries, this review (1) gives generic ideas on work organization indicators and their variation; (2) identifies four generic patterns of work organization which are not linked to the local context but marked by the workforce composition; (3) demonstrates that the relevance of the Work Assessment Method to tackle work issues, and its capacities to be adapted to a variety of livestock farming contexts throughout the world, is linked to the properties of its framework, which was developed by combining different disciplinary approaches; (4) highlights the principal limits of the method: lack of coordination with other dimensions of work (labor productivity; sense of the job), and limited characterization of the work organization flexibility; and (5) proposes some possibilities of change to better respond to the diversity of work situations and questions about work, and take better into account the evolutions of livestock farming systems.

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Section: What About Other Work Dimensions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contribution To Advice Research and Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Cournut

Chauvat

Correa

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…However, livestock scientists studying farm work have made comparable findings. They identify three aspects of work: (i) technical: labor, equipment, working time; (ii) organizational: distribution of tasks among the workforce and over time; and (iii) subjective: the meaning a worker gives to their work, which may be a source of pleasure or pain (Kling-Eveillard et al 2012;Fiorelli et al 2010). Table 2 shows that there is very little difference between types of change of practice, or between farm locations, in the relative percentages of information items relating to the different work change categories.…”

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“…However, when we were validating work change categories with seven of the farmers interviewed, four said they had never talked about or even identified their work changes in that way. The fact that work information is tacit (and also private or taboo, as shown in livestock farming by Kling-Eveillard et al (2012)) can make it difficult for farmers to discuss it. According to Nonaka et al (1994), person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge can be achieved through a process of "socialization," that is, via observation, imitation, or experience sharing.…”

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Work-related information needed by farmers for changing to sustainable cropping practices

Delecourt

Joannon

Meynard

2019

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Farmers are being urged to change their practices in order to reduce agricultural pollution. These changes may affect working times and organization, and farmers often mention this to explain the difficulties they have in adopting a new practice. But little is known about the work-related changes (e.g., working time, organization, skills) engendered by a change of farming practice, or about the information that farmers need for deciding on and implementing a new practice. In order to design tools to help farmers when adopting more agroecological practices, the objective of this paper is to identify what work-related information is useful to them for changing their practices. We interviewed 16 farmers in France and we then characterized the types of work-related information they had applied. We focused both on changes that were systemic (reducing tillage or diversifying crops) or less systemic (low-volume spraying or mechanical weeding). We performed a qualitative analysis with an iterative method, alternating between gathering data from the farmers and theorizing about what happens on the work front. We then performed a quantitative analysis of the results, based on chi-squared tests, to identify which factors influence farmers' work-related information needs. Our findings showed, for the first time, that farmers apply a wide range of information about work changes, concerning performance of new operations, resources used, work organization and competition between activities, and the arduous or rewarding nature of farm work. We showed that the types of information needed change during the process of introducing a new practice. In the first phase, farmers gather mainly generic information about the focal operation and the resources required. In the next phase, they run innovation experiments, producing their own information on how their work is changing and how to reorganize it. Based on these results, we suggest some paths for designing support tools.

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Exploring farmers’ perceptions of social sustainability

Saleh,

Ehlers

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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In the farming sector, there is growing awareness of the importance of the social dimension of sustainability and its complex links to environmental and economic sustainability. However, social sustainability is generally the least understood dimension of sustainability. Despite efforts to empirically capture social sustainability, it remains unclear how it is relevant to individual farms and how it depends on their contexts. To generate a comprehensive and contextual understanding of social sustainability, we adopted a mixed-methods approach. We first conducted qualitative interviews with farm managers, which then informed the development of a survey focused on farmers’ perceptions and experiences of social sustainability at their farms. In total, 354 Swiss farm managers completed our online survey. First, we identified social aspects relevant to farmers and compared them across the three main production types in Switzerland (dairy, crop, and other livestock production). Second, we assessed farmers’ perceptions and experiences of social sustainability and the relationship of these perceptions and experiences with farmer identity (i.e., productivist, conservative, passionate caretaker, and forward-looking). The findings reveal differences in the meaning and importance of social sustainability across production types. Farmer identity appears to influence the experience of social sustainability at farms, with forward-looking farmers reporting better experiences of social sustainability than other farmers. The findings can inform the development and implementation of social sustainability indicators for farms and tailored interventions based on farm contexts and farmer characteristics.

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Le travail, sujet intime et multifacette : premières recommandations pour l’aborder dans le conseil en élevage

Cited by 7 publications

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Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Work-related information needed by farmers for changing to sustainable cropping practices

Exploring farmers’ perceptions of social sustainability

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