Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis

Shortland, Faye; Hall, Jilly; Hurley, Paul; Little, Ruth; Nye, Caroline; Lobley, Matt; Rose, David Christian

doi:10.1111/soru.12414

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“…The sixth article by Shortland et al. (2023) again uses the COVID‐19 pandemic as a point of focus, but moves the debate past understanding drivers of poor farmer mental health, and towards an exploration of the ‘landscapes of support’ for it. By ‘landscapes of support’, the authors refer to the range of support sources available to farmers, including mental health charities, primary health care, chaplains and other faith groups, auction mart staff and people in rural communities and farmer/peer organisations.…”

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Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support

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Although there has been a recent surge in research on drivers of poor farmer wellbeing and mental health, there is still a limited understanding of the state of wellbeing in farming communities around the world and how it can be best supported. This special issue seeks to extend our knowledge of how a combination of different stressors can challenge the wellbeing of farmers, farming families and farm workers, as well as how negative impacts can be unevenly distributed between different individuals. We advance the state of the art in research on farmer wellbeing, illustrating how social, economic and environmental policy drivers combine to create multiple points of stress, which are experienced differently by different individuals (e.g., age, gender). We move beyond an exploration of stressors towards a consideration of how landscapes of support for farmer wellbeing, and packages of support interventions, can improve the social resilience of farming communities. To be effective, these landscapes of support need to be accessible, well‐funded, joined‐up, and adaptable to evolving crises. This special issue explores farmer wellbeing in the context of global agricultural transitions, which are demanding new ways of farming (e.g., digitalisation, net zero, economic restructuring), and in light of shock events, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, in four countries—Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US. In exploring the impacts of future shock events and agricultural transitions on wellbeing, the issue concludes with a call to move beyond broad compilations of stressors and interventions and towards nuanced investigations of why and how poor farmer wellbeing occurs and how it can be best supported in specific contexts. The research from these four countries has wide relevance across European countries (similarity in farming systems, noting some differences), but a key message from the issue is that stressors on farmer wellbeing can be highly context‐dependent according to place‐based social, environmental, economic and political issues.

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Exploring inclusion in UK agricultural robotics development: who, how, and why?

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The global agricultural sector faces a significant number of challenges for a sustainable future, and one of the tools proposed to address these challenges is the use of automation in agriculture. In particular, robotic systems for agricultural tasks are being designed, tested, and increasingly commercialised in many countries. Much touted as an environmentally beneficial technology with the ability to improve data management and reduce the use of chemical inputs while improving yields and addressing labour shortages, agricultural robotics also presents a number of potential ethical challenges – including rural unemployment, the amplification of economic and digital inequalities, and entrenching unsustainable farming practices. As such, development is not uncontroversial, and there have been calls for a responsible approach to their innovation that integrates more substantive inclusion into development processes. This study investigates current approaches to participation and inclusion amongst United Kingdom (UK) agricultural robotics developers. Through semi-structured interviews with key members of the UK agricultural robotics sector, we analyse the stakeholder engagement currently integrated into development processes. We explore who is included, how inclusion is done, and what the inclusion is done for. We reflect on how these findings align with the current literature on stakeholder inclusion in agricultural technology development, and suggest what they could mean for the development of more substantive responsible innovation in agricultural robotics.

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Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support

Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support

Exploring inclusion in UK agricultural robotics development: who, how, and why?

Understanding Medical 4.0 implementation through enablers: An integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach

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