Sandra Contzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Contzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Contzen |
| SIGNATURE | CONTZEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bern University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6508-1313 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Exploring dairy farmers’ quality of life perceptions – A Swiss case study
Dairy farming is physically hard, with limited freedom due to twice-daily milking duties and low revenues. Moreover, globalization, deregulation and trade liberalization have significantly changed the conditions of dairy farming. How can dairy farmers in this context maintain good quality of life? What makes a life one of good quality? This paper uses a qualitative bottom-up approach to understand Swiss dairy farmers' and their families' individu…
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors
Being a poor farmer in a wealthy country: A Swiss case study
Many Swiss farming families face socioeconomic disadvantage despite Switzerland being a wealthy country with instruments of agricultural policy financially supporting almost all farmers. However, official poverty statistics exclude Swiss farmers and scientific knowledge is rare about how such situations are experienced. This article scrutinises the situation of Swiss farming families living in poverty or material deprivation by intertwining quali…
Retirement as a Discrete Life-Stage of Farming Men and Women's Biography
Retirement generally marks the end of working life and the start of a new life-stage, providing the potential for new contents and opportunities, while requiring adaptation of existing roles. Retired Swiss farming men and women usually continue working and living on the farm, but their roles change. Drawing on conceptual approaches from gerontology research, we first aim to comprehend how farming men and women experience and understand retirement…
Family farming and gendered division of labour on the move: A typology of farming-family configurations
Family farming and gendered division of labour on the move: A typology of farming-family configurations
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors
Exploring dairy farmers’ quality of life perceptions – A Swiss case study
Dairy farming is physically hard, with limited freedom due to twice-daily milking duties and low revenues. Moreover, globalization, deregulation and trade liberalization have significantly changed the conditions of dairy farming. How can dairy farmers in this context maintain good quality of life? What makes a life one of good quality? This paper uses a qualitative bottom-up approach to understand Swiss dairy farmers' and their families' individu…
Retirement as a Discrete Life-Stage of Farming Men and Women's Biography
Retirement generally marks the end of working life and the start of a new life-stage, providing the potential for new contents and opportunities, while requiring adaptation of existing roles. Retired Swiss farming men and women usually continue working and living on the farm, but their roles change. Drawing on conceptual approaches from gerontology research, we first aim to comprehend how farming men and women experience and understand retirement…
Being a poor farmer in a wealthy country: A Swiss case study
Many Swiss farming families face socioeconomic disadvantage despite Switzerland being a wealthy country with instruments of agricultural policy financially supporting almost all farmers. However, official poverty statistics exclude Swiss farmers and scientific knowledge is rare about how such situations are experienced. This article scrutinises the situation of Swiss farming families living in poverty or material deprivation by intertwining quali…
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Family farming and gendered division of labour on the move: A typology of farming-family configurations
Retirement as a Discrete Life-Stage of Farming Men and Women's Biography
Retirement generally marks the end of working life and the start of a new life-stage, providing the potential for new contents and opportunities, while requiring adaptation of existing roles. Retired Swiss farming men and women usually continue working and living on the farm, but their roles change. Drawing on conceptual approaches from gerontology research, we first aim to comprehend how farming men and women experience and understand retirement…
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors
Being a poor farmer in a wealthy country: A Swiss case study
Many Swiss farming families face socioeconomic disadvantage despite Switzerland being a wealthy country with instruments of agricultural policy financially supporting almost all farmers. However, official poverty statistics exclude Swiss farmers and scientific knowledge is rare about how such situations are experienced. This article scrutinises the situation of Swiss farming families living in poverty or material deprivation by intertwining quali…
Exploring dairy farmers’ quality of life perceptions – A Swiss case study
Dairy farming is physically hard, with limited freedom due to twice-daily milking duties and low revenues. Moreover, globalization, deregulation and trade liberalization have significantly changed the conditions of dairy farming. How can dairy farmers in this context maintain good quality of life? What makes a life one of good quality? This paper uses a qualitative bottom-up approach to understand Swiss dairy farmers' and their families' individu…
New insights on the role of the farm household-farm operation interface in family farm persistence and a call for future research
Revisiting the concept of ‘decent work’ for agriculture
Rural development and sustainability (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)