Thinking about the future of farming through different facets of “work in agriculture”. Textual analysis of papers from the first Symposium on Work in Agriculture

Thinking about the future of farming systems requires connecting multiple facets of changesin work in agriculture. The first International Symposium on Work in Agriculture was held in 2016 todiscuss a variety of themes, from employment and health to gender and work organization. Textualanalysis of the symposium’s proceedings was performed, identifying four research domains: theinfluences of 1) demographic and rural dynamics and changes on family involvement, 2) technicalaspects of work on farm and work organization, 3) changes on work and new skills of agriculturaladvisors and 4) socio-technical changes on work in agriculture and agricultural models. Among thesemain domains, agroecological transition emerged as a key entry to study overall changes in farmingand food systems. These elements will help to consolidate a vision of current hotspots of changes inwork in agriculture and of major figures in research communities.