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What about the health of agricultural workers?
The people who work to grow and harvest the food we eat play a key role in ensuring our good health and proper nutrition. And yet they often do so at the expense of their own health, owing to a combination of factors: the arduous nature of the work, the difficulties accessing the health system for the most precarious workers,
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Farmers in the EU – statistics
Europe is an important region for the global agricultural industry, both in terms of agricultural land and agricultural production. EU farms used 173 million hectares (ha) of land for agricultural production in 2016. According to the national accounts around 10 million people worked in agriculture in the EU-28 in 2015 and accounted for 4.4 % of total employment. Almost three-quarters
Continue reading Pandemic – Impacts on Agricultural Sectors
Limits on the mobility of people across borders and lockdowns are contributing tolabour shortagesfor agricultural sectors in many countries, particularly those characterized by periods of peak seasonal labour demand or labour-intensive production. For example, newly implemented travel bans within the European Union, as well as the closure of the Schengen Area, have significantly reduced the available workforce for the fruit
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