Future of Work in Agriculture

Details

• Personal Author:
  Howard J ; Lincoln, Jennifer M.
• Description:
  In 2019, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) launched a Future of Work Initiative. The new Initiative is organized around a series of changes affecting where work is done (workplace), how job tasks are accomplished (work), and who does work (workforce). One of the chief goals of the NIOSH Future of Work Initiative is to discover emerging workplace, work, and workforce trends in various industry sectors that may impact occupational safety, health and well-being in those sectors. Nowhere are emerging future of work trends more apparent than in one of the oldest industry sectors-agriculture. We are all dependent on the agriculture sector to support human life. The worldwide demand for agriculture's chief product-calories from food-is growing. The world's population is expected to increase by two billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050, and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100. At the same time that food demand is increasing because of population growth, supply inputs such as factors of production like land, water, and labor are decreasing. These underlying supply and demand forces in agriculture are rapidly changing what the agricultural workplace looks like, the types of technologies that are used to accomplish agriculture work, and mix of occupations and job skills that workers need to succeed in agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Emerging Technology Farm Workers Food Workers Work Organization Workplace Monitoring
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066295
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2023 Jan; 28(1):1-4
• Contact Point Address:
  John Howard, MD, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Patriots Plaza 1, 395 E Street, S.W., Suite 9200, Washington, DC 20201
• Email:
  jhoward1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212771/cdc_212771_DS1.pdf
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