Foresight Posters – Insights into emerging skill needs
1) Skill Needs in Agriculture
Importance of the sector
Agriculture is important. The practice of cultivating natural resources for the production of foodstuffs is essential to sustaining human life. In many countries, including the UK, employment has been in decline. But because many people are expected to retire from agriculture over the next ten years or so there will be many job opening. Traditionally, agriculture has employed people working outside in traditional, manual tasks linked to crop cultivation and animal husbandry. This is changing. Information is provided on how employment and skill demand is likely to change over the medium-term. This information has been obtained from a variety of foresight studies conducted across Europe based on skill projections and the use of data mining techniques in addition to views obtained from experts.