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
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COVID-19 期间及之后的农业福祉：压力源、性别差异和支持环境
DOI：
10.1111/soru.12425
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4.1
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Rose D
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尽管最近对贫困农民福祉和心理健康的驱动因素的研究激增，但对世界各地农业社区的福祉状况以及如何最好地支持这种状况的了解仍然有限。本期特刊旨在扩大我们对不同压力源的组合如何挑战农民、农业家庭和农场工人的福祉，以及如何在不同个人之间不均匀地分配负面影响的了解。我们推进了关于农民福祉的研究的最新进展，说明了社会、经济和环境政策驱动因素如何结合在一起创造了多个压力点，不同的农民个体(例如，年龄、性别)会有不同的感受。我们超越了对压力源的探索，转向考虑支持农民福祉的环境和一揽子支持干预措施如何能够提高农业社区的社会韧性。为了有效，这些支持的前景需要是可获得的、资金充足的、联合起来的，并能够适应不断演变的危机。本期特刊在全球农业转型的背景下，结合爱尔兰、新西兰、英国和美国等四个国家发生的令人震惊的事件(如新冠肺炎大流行)，探讨全球农业转型对农民福祉的影响。在探讨未来冲击事件和农业转型对福祉的影响时，这一问题最后呼吁超越对压力源和干预措施的广泛汇编，转向细致入微地调查贫穷的农民福祉为什么和如何发生，以及如何在特定背景下最好地支持这一问题。这四个国家的研究在整个欧洲国家都有广泛的相关性(农业系统相似，注意到一些差异)，但这个问题传递的一个关键信息是，根据基于地点的社会、环境、经济和政治问题，农民福祉的压力来源可能高度依赖于背景。
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.