Supporting farmers’ management of change towards agro-ecological practices by focusing on the work dimension: the contribution of ergonomics

The public authorities and some agricultural actors wish to develop agroecology to face the rise of new challenges (impacts of agricultural practices on natural resources in particular). Thus new agricultural work systems are being designed, raising questions regarding the inclusion of farmers’ work in the agro-ecological transition. Our action research endeavours to support the development of agricultural work systems by conceiving of the agro-ecological transition as a set of processes of collective design of new work systems. To do so, we are implementing a “Building a chronicle of change” method, which appears to be an interesting way to initiate an “Enabling intervention in the management of change” with farmers engaged in different types of changes