Gender and agricultural labour
The topic studies farm labour and gender differences: agricultural employment, working conditions, the role of women in farms and food systems and gender gaps. It asks how policies, starting from the CAP, affect employment and how much women's work contributes to development. Recent research looks at women's contribution to the adoption of climate-smart agriculture, women's entrepreneurship, the living conditions of migrant farm workers, policy tools to improve the position of foreign workers and consumers' willingness to reward fair farm work.
Description written by AI from the keywords, journals, most-cited works and recent works of the topic.
The last share tells how far the topic passes through few hands: in the field it ranges from 12% to 39%. 13% means that the topic is widespread, with no recognisable centre. Signatures are counted, not papers: an article with four authors on the topic weighs four times, because the question is how much of the work passes through few people.
Trend over time and quality of outlets
Documents and citations per year
Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)
Attention in the last three years
The topic is in line with the field: citations received by its papers went from 417 (2020–2022) to 734 (2023–2025), while those of the whole field grew 1.55 times. Citations received in those years by all papers on the topic are counted, including older ones.
Who leads the topic in the last three years
- Alberto Zezza · Enti stranieri · 103 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Alessandro Olper · MILANO · 91 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Fabio Bartolini · FERRARA · 67 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Luca Cacchiarelli · TUSCIA · 55 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Daniele Cavicchioli · MILANO · 36 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
Most active researchers on the topic
By papers on the topic. The last column still shows specialisation, to tell apart those who work on it a lot in absolute terms from those who work on it above all.
| Name | Institution | Papers on the topic | h-index | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcello De Rosa | Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | 7 | 19 | 8.79 |
| Alessandro Olper | Università degli Studi di Milano | 5 | 30 | 7.63 |
| Valentina Raimondi | Università degli Studi di Milano | 4 | 14 | 12.21 |
| Fabio Bartolini | Università degli Studi di Ferrara | 3 | 31 | 3.01 |
| Simone Blanc | Università degli Studi di Torino | 3 | 22 | 3.01 |
| Daniele Cavicchioli | Università degli Studi di Milano | 3 | 16 | 9.99 |
| Maria Angela Perito | Università degli Studi di Teramo | 3 | 17 | 5.23 |
| Donato Romano | Università degli Studi di Firenze | 3 | 14 | 10.99 |
| Maria Sassi | Università degli Studi di Pavia | 3 | 15 | 2.09 |
| Simone Severini | Università degli Studi della Tuscia | 3 | 23 | 3.93 |
| Alberto Zezza | Foreign institutions | 3 | 24 | 7.33 |
| Maria Bruna Zolin | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia | 3 | 7 | 8.46 |
| Tiziana Pagnani | Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | 3 | 5 | 12.21 |
| Felice Adinolfi | Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna | 2 | 22 | — |
| Danilo Bertoni | Università degli Studi di Milano | 2 | 16 | — |
Who is most specialised in this topic
Not those who published the most on it, but those who devote the largest share of their output to it compared with the field average. Above 1 there is specialisation; the tick marks parity. Researchers with fewer than three papers on the topic are excluded.
| Name | Institution | Papers on the topic | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valentina Raimondi | Università degli Studi di Milano | 4 | 12.21 |
| Tiziana Pagnani | Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | 3 | 12.21 |
| Donato Romano | Università degli Studi di Firenze | 3 | 10.99 |
| Daniele Cavicchioli | Università degli Studi di Milano | 3 | 9.99 |
| Marcello De Rosa | Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | 7 | 8.79 |
| Maria Bruna Zolin | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia | 3 | 8.46 |
| Alessandro Olper | Università degli Studi di Milano | 5 | 7.63 |
| Alberto Zezza | Foreign institutions | 3 | 7.33 |
| Maria Angela Perito | Università degli Studi di Teramo | 3 | 5.23 |
| Simone Severini | Università degli Studi della Tuscia | 3 | 3.93 |
Most active institutions
The number tells how much work on the topic comes from each institution; specialisation tells how much the topic weighs within the institution compared with the field average. A small, focused institution can be more specialised than a large one that does everything.
| Institution | Papers on the topic | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|
| Università degli Studi di Milano | 24 | 2.30 |
| Foreign institutions | 15 | 1.46 |
| Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna | 13 | 0.88 |
| Università degli Studi della Tuscia | 13 | 1.92 |
| Università degli Studi di Torino | 12 | 0.96 |
| Università degli Studi di Firenze | 11 | 1.40 |
| Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | 11 | 1.41 |
| Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | 10 | 6.04 |
| CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia | 10 | 0.89 |
| Università degli Studi di Catania | 6 | 0.47 |
Institutions in Italy
- Milano12
- Cassino9
- Napoli Federico II (Portici)9
- Bologna8
- CREA-PB (Roma)8
- Firenze7
- Tuscia (Viterbo)7
- Ferrara4
International collaboration
Related topics
The topics that most often appear in the same papers. The number is the papers in common.
Recurring keywords
Main journals
- Agricultural and Food Economics · 6 papers
- Sustainability (Switzerland) · 6 papers
- Bio-based and Applied Economics · 4 papers
- Food Policy · 4 papers
- Journal of Rural Studies · 4 papers
- New Medit · 4 papers
- British Food Journal · 3 papers
- European Review of Agricultural Economics · 3 papers
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 3 papers
- Applied Economics · 2 papers
- BioInvasions Records · 2 papers
- International Forestry Review · 2 papers
Most cited publications on the topic
- Are African households (not) leaving agriculture? Patterns of households’ income sources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa2017 · 246 citations
- Subsidies and agricultural productivity in the EU2019 · 94 citations
- Gender equality and sustainable development: A cross-country study on women's contribution to the adoption of the climate-smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa2024 · 90 citations
- Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)2021 · 76 citations
- Jobs and agricultural policy: Impact of the common agricultural policy on EU agricultural employment2019 · 73 citations
- What Factors Encourage Intrafamily Farm Succession in Mountain Areas?2015 · 60 citations
- Do CAP payments reduce farm labour migration? A panel data analysis across EU regions2014 · 58 citations
- Animal welfare and gender: a nexus in awareness and preference when choosing fresh beef meat?2020 · 55 citations
- Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity2023 · 54 citations
- Food security composite indices: implications for policy and practice2015 · 50 citations