Written by Charlotte Cunningham
RABI has commissioned England and Wales’ largest ever research project into farmer wellbeing, in partnership with the University of Exeter. Charlotte Cunningham reports. The university has been appointed to conduct a once in a generation survey of farming people, according to RABI. After months in development, the research project, which launches early in 2021, will seek to better understand mental and physical wellbeing issues facing people in agriculture. The charity says that the research will be the largest survey ever undertaken to gain an understanding directly from farming people of the stresses they face and the impacts on their wellbeing of these challenges. RABI has worked with a number of key stakeholders to help develop the survey including the NFU, NFU Cymru, Defra, Welsh Government and the Worshipful Company of Farmers. Complex challenges With RABI hoping to achieve 26,000 responses to the survey across England and Wales, partners across the sector will be engaged to help promote the survey as RABI hopes to reach as many farming people as possible. “We know the farming community is facing changing and increasingly complex challenges,” said Alicia Chivers, RABI’s chief executive. “This research is fundamental to ensuring we really understand how these pressures…
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