Worth knowing: How is the Swedish farmer?

Please note that this lecture is in Swedish.

Drawing on a national study made on the request of the Swedish Board of Agriculture, Peter Lundqvist explains how the Swedish farmer often suffers from an excessive work load, and also faces challenges related to economy, weather, climate change, laws, regulations and inspections. Crime, loneliness, isolation, a lack of support and other factors sometimes lead to a sense of insecurity.

Farmers use both positive and negative strategies to cope with the they experience. The availability of external support depends on where you live, and many farmers lack trust in actors outside of their family. Peter Lundqvist argues that there is a huge need to support farmers’ mental helath and that there is a lot of good opportunites to do so – as long as the issues are prioritized in society and among politicians.

Peter Lundqvist is a professor in Work Science at the Department of People and Society.

This Worth Knowing lecture is part of SLU:s Rural Week programme.

Take part online, live or afterwards

If you are unable to attend in person, the lecture will be streamed live on SLU Play and on the SLU University Library’s Facebook page. The lecture will also be available to watch afterwards on SLU Play, but it will take a couple of weeks before it is published there.

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Please note that the number of seats in the Studio is limited. The seats are distributed on a first come, first serve basis.

Worth knowing

Worth knowing is the SLU University Library’s popular science lunchtime lecture series. Here, exciting and recent research results from SLU are presented. We offer a light lunch, and after the lecture listeners have the opportunity to ask questions.

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