PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1617575
This article is part of the Research TopicBuilding Resilience Through Sustainability: Innovative Strategies In Agricultural SystemsView all 10 articles
A call for research and policy into building multi-layered social resilience towards a sustainable agricultural workforce in Switzerland
Provisionally accepted
Julia Doetzer1,2*
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund1,2,3
Priska Ammann1,2
Medea Imboden1,2
Ayoung Jeong1,2Aline Veillat1,2Karin Ingold4,5,6
Mirko S. Winkler1,2Samuel Fuhrimann1,2
Nicole Probst1,2*- 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Allschwil, Switzerland
- 2Department of Public Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 3Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Dawson Building, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- 4Oeschger Center for Climate Research, Faculty of Science and Natural Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 5Institute of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 6Department Environmental Social Sciences, EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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The agricultural workforce is exposed to rapidly changing working conditions due to societal, economic, political, and ecological challenges. In the Swiss farming community, poor mental wellbeing is a growing concern and research focuses on the distribution and hazards of psychological distress in farmers and their social network. This perspective benefits from insights of the first agricultural cohort in Switzerland, illustrating the complex field that farmers operate in. Consequently, we call for a paradigm shift in research and policy from individual vulnerability to multi-layered social resilience towards building an agricultural workforce with the capacity to create pathways for a sustainable agriculture.
Keywords: Agriculture, social resilience, Mental Health, Occupational Health, Switzerland
Received: 24 Apr 2025; Accepted: 28 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Doetzer, Kaiser-Grolimund, Ammann, Imboden, Jeong, Veillat, Ingold, Winkler, Fuhrimann and Probst. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Julia Doetzer, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Allschwil, Switzerland
Nicole Probst, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Allschwil, Switzerland
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