Supporting farmers’ management of change towards agroecological practices by focusing on their work: a contribution of ergonomics

Chizallet, Marie; Barcellini, Flore; Prost, Lorène

doi:10.1051/cagri/2018023

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“…It would be worth investigating this point. Chizallet et al (2016) challenge the forms of support provided in this flow of activity in order to enable farmers to be more reflexive and projective about work issues, and call for research on the forms and content of support that will enable farmers to acquire and express their capacities. How does this integration of constructive work into farmers' flow of activities challenge and change AKIS players' profession?…”

Section: Supporting Agro-ecological Transitions: Renewing the Work Of Akis Playersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning the work of farmers, advisors, teachers and researchers in agro-ecological transition. A review

Coquil¹,

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Auricoste³

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The French Ministry of Agriculture has called for agro-ecological transitions that reconcile farming and the environment. In this review, we examine the transformations of farmers and AKIS (Agriculture Knowledge Innovation System) actors' work during agro-ecological transitions, and argue that the content, organization, and aim of farmers' work are influenced by agricultural training, agricultural development, and discussions between peers, research, and regulations. Our main findings concern those transformations. The first finding was that there is an increasing expression of local particularities (situated ecological processes, micro-climates, etc.) and farmers' singularities (e.g., relationship with nature). These particularities challenge AKIS players' forms of organization and intervention, which used to be built on generic knowledge. Our second finding was that AKIS players have to consider their action as one potential contribution to the development of farmers' experience: Their interventions become part of the flow of the farmer's activities. The question for AKIS players is then: How can farmers' own discovery of their natural and technical environment from new perspectives be facilitated? Thirdly, we found that transformations of work are systemic: The "doing", the knowledge applied, and the values and norms to which subjects refer change. Facilitating transition can no longer be considered as a problem of knowledge availability. Fourthly, production of agronomic knowledge and ways in which it is disseminated are being challenged. Not only does knowledge have to be certified by scientific norms and methods, it has also to be valued by actors if it is to have an impact. The prescriptive relationship of science and AKIS players towards farmers is likewise challenged. This review raises many questions: Do agro-ecological transitions contribute to reorienting the development of farmers' activity? Are agro-ecological transitions conducive to the development of sustainable farm work? What transformations of AKIS players' work are needed to better support agro-ecological transitions?

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Section: Supporting Agro-ecological Transitions: Renewing the Work Of Akis Playersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning the work of farmers, advisors, teachers and researchers in agro-ecological transition. A review

Coquil¹,

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Auricoste³

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“…Deep investigation into major drivers would help understand dynamics of work-related changes and how research could better support sustainable working conditions in agriculture. We need to deepen research on how agricultural models in territories have impacted work-related changes and agricultural dynamics over the past 10 years (Purseigle et al 2017) by encouraging certain ones, such as agroecology on small-scale farms (Altieri 1999;Chizallet et al 2018;Parodi 2018;Finley et al 2018) and industrial agriculture on large-scale farms (Zlolniski 2018;Palliere and Cochet 2018;Suzuki et al 2018), or by discouraging others, such as communitarian agriculture (Zhang and Donaldson 2010).…”

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Characteristics of “work in agriculture” scientific communities. A bibliometric review

Malanski

Schiavi

Dedieu

2019

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Work is a central concern for sustainable farming systems and rural communities, especially regarding specific issues of the agricultural sector, as the strong decrease in rural employment and the less attractive working conditions. Many articles covering diverse related topics have been published. However, the few studies analyzing the state of worldwide scientific research on work in agriculture give only a fragmented view, since they focus on specialized topics and disciplines. To fill this knowledge gap, the aim of this study was to review the state of research on work in agriculture addressed by the scientific literature, through a bibliometric analysis by country, institution, journal, author, and keywords. Our main finds are that (1) work in agriculture issues is divided into six main research domains: occupational health and safety, labor market and rural employment, labor and farm sustainability, work organization, agricultural policy and agrarian changes, and labor and family farms; (2) these research domains are analyzed by five scientific communities: ergonomics, agricultural economics, livestock farming systems, rural sociology, and agricultural policy; (3) the reference authors, most-cited articles, and main journals were identified for each scientific community; (4) USA, France, and China arise as leaders in the scientific landscape. We show for the first time the characteristics of the main scientific communities worldwide that have performed the most relevant research related to work in agriculture over the past 10 years. This review provides a benchmark for future research on agricultural work-related topics and encourages collaborations between researchers from different scientific communities for interdisciplinary innovation, which support sustainable working conditions in agriculture. Keywords Work. Agriculture. Bibliometric analysis. Communities Contents 1. Introduction 2. Building and analyzing the database 3. Characteristics of literature on work in agriculture 3.1 Institutional context of research: countries, institutions and funding agencies 3.2 Overview of journals and disciplines 3.3 Productive authors, their affiliation and the journals of publication 3.4 Most-cited articles 3.5 The domains of research from keywords to linkages and pools 4. Scientific communities researching work in agriculture over the past 10 years 5. Scientific communities working towards interdisciplinary innovation 5.1 Major current issues addressed by the scientific communities 5.2 Looking beyond limitations for further research on work in agriculture 6. Drawing the scientific landscape of work in agriculture Conclusion References

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“…Several studies adopting this co-evolutionary approach enable us to understand how these lock-ins are constructed in the agricultural sector (Cowan and Gunby 1996;Vanloqueren and Baret 2009). For example, the work of Magrini et al (2016;2018) shows how the political drive following the Second World War, based on the Agroecological Transition from Farms to Territorialised Agri-Food Systems: Issues… conventional paradigm, 3 discouraged the development of production alternatives with less use of mineral fertilisers, such as pulses farming. Instead, the specialisation of production by country (European cereals versus American soy), region, and farm, supported by the use of synthetic inputs and specific genetic changes, were promoted.…”

Section: Transitions Are Embedded In Lock-in Situationsmentioning

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“…Five main types of mechanism (called "self-reinforcing") feed this adoption practice and highlight the role of collective action and knowledge. These mechanisms are illustrated for the conventional agricultural paradigm in (Magrini et al 2017;2018). We give a brief overview of them below:…”

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Supporting farmers’ management of change towards agroecological practices by focusing on their work: a contribution of ergonomics

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Questioning the work of farmers, advisors, teachers and researchers in agro-ecological transition. A review

Questioning the work of farmers, advisors, teachers and researchers in agro-ecological transition. A review

Characteristics of “work in agriculture” scientific communities. A bibliometric review

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

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