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Innovation in Labour Organisation and Social Conditionality: Implications for Farm Advisory Services

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  • Geneviève Nguyen

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There is growing concern about the evolution of working conditions for employees on European farms. In the new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), financial support to farmers will soon be subject to a social conditionality clause. As a result of this change in CAP regulations, in this paper we ask if the need for specific advice can already be foreseen? Examining recent investigations that focused on new forms of labour organisations on farms can help to answer this question. Investigations were conducted across France, combining qualitative field studies with a comprehensive analysis of statistical and administrative data. The results show a growing complexity of farm labour organisation that generates needs for new types of advice. In particular, an increasing proportion of the people working on farms are employed by another organisation (foreign and domestic service providers, employers’ alliances, etc.). The administrative data provides strong evidence of the scale of this trend which has little visibility in the agricultural census data. We should therefore be cautious about oversimplified representations of labour patterns at farm level. They can distort policy design, implementation and assessment by overlooking a part of the worker population and needs for new types of advice, including those that will be required to meet social conditionality requirements. L'évolution des conditions de travail des salariés dans les exploitations agricoles européennes inquiète de plus en plus. Dans la nouvelle politique agricole commune (PAC), les aides financières aux agriculteurs seront bientôt soumises à une clause de conditionnalité sociale. Dans cet article nous nous demandons si on peut déjà prévoir des besoins de conseils spécifiques pour accompagner ce changement de réglementation de la PAC. Des recherches récentes portant sur les nouvelles formes d'organisations du travail dans les exploitations peuvent aider à répondre à cette question. Ces recherches ont été menées sur l'ensemble de la France, associant des études qualitatives de terrain à une analyse de données statistiques et administratives. Les résultats montrent une complexité croissante de l'organisation du travail agricole qui engendre des besoins nouveaux de conseil. En particulier, une proportion croissante des personnes travaillant dans les exploitations agricoles est employée par une autre organisation (prestataires de services étrangers et nationaux, groupements d'employeurs, etc.). Les données administratives fournissent des preuves solides de l'ampleur de cette tendance qui est peu visible dans les données des recensements agricoles. Il faut donc se méfier des représentations trop simplifiées des modèles de main‐d'œuvre au niveau de l'exploitation. Ils peuvent fausser la conception, la mise en œuvre et l'évaluation des politiques en occultant une partie de la population de travailleurs et des nouveaux besoins de conseils, y compris ceux qui seront nécessaires pour répondre aux exigences de la conditionnalité sociale. Die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbedingungen für die Beschäftigten in den europäischen landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben gibt zunehmend Anlass zur Sorge. Im Rahmen der neuen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) wird die finanzielle Unterstützung der Betriebe demnächst an eine soziale Konditionalität geknüpft. Infolge dieser Veränderungen stellen wir die Frage, ob der Bedarf an spezifischer Beratung bereits absehbar ist. Aktuelle Studien, die sich mit neuen Formen von Arbeitsorganisationen in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben befassen, können bei deren Beantwortung helfen. Die Untersuchungen wurden in Frankreich durchgeführt wobei qualitative Feldstudien mit einer umfassenden Analyse von statistischen und Verwaltungsdaten kombiniert wurden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine zunehmende Komplexität der Arbeitsorganisation in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben, die neue Formen der Beratung erforderlich macht. Insbesondere ist ein zunehmender Anteil der in den landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben tätigen Personen bei einer anderen Organisation beschäftigt (ausländische und inländische Dienstleister, Arbeitgebervereinigungen usw.). Die Verwaltungsdaten sind ein deutlicher Beleg für das Ausmaß dieser Entwicklung, welches in den Daten der Landwirtschaftszählung kaum sichtbar ist. Wir sollten daher vorsichtig sein mit allzu vereinfachten Darstellungen der Arbeitsmuster auf Betriebsebene. Sie können die Politikgestaltung, ‐umsetzung und ‐bewertung verzerren, indem sie einen Teil der Arbeitnehmerpopulation und den Bedarf an neuen Arten von Beratung übersehen. Das schließt diejenigen ein, die erforderlich sind, um die Anforderungen der sozialen Konditionalität zu erfüllen.

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  • Catherine Laurent & Geneviève Nguyen, 2022. "Innovation in Labour Organisation and Social Conditionality: Implications for Farm Advisory Services," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 21(1), pages 56-62, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:eurcho:v:21:y:2022:i:1:p:56-62
    DOI: 10.1111/1746-692X.12350
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    1. Geneviève Nguyen & François Purseigle & Bruno Legagneux, 2021. "Changes in labour organisation and farm structure," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 20(3), pages 54-55, December.
    2. Dupraz, Pierre & Latruffe, Laure, 2015. "Trends in family labour, hired labour and contract work on French field crop farms: The role of the Common Agricultural Policy," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 104-118.
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