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Institutional (In)justice in Swiss Food Governance: Agricultural Workers, Land, and the Missing Middle

Permanent link https://igd.unil.ch/projet/en/475
Research fields Urban matters
Political ecologies
Keywords Agricultural Land Governance
Power Relations
Housing
Seasonal Labour
Food Production
Funding Cantonal funding
Duration January 2026 - January 2030
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Researchers Debrunner Gabriela (IGD UNIL) [web] [email]

My PhD research examines institutional (in)justice in Swiss Food Governance, focusing on the relations between land, labour and housing in agriculture. It asks how a strongly protected agricultural land regime, for example through the Agricultural Land Law, further affects labour-related housing and working conditions of agricultural (seasonal) workers. The project explores how legal frameworks, landownership, and local governance shape these dynamics and what they reveal about "fair" food production in Switzerland.



Agricultural Workers, Seeland (Switzerland). Picture taken from the train