Grand Est. Mental health of farmers: "He went for a walk with his dog... He shot himself"

Isolated, under pressure, precarious, dried up... Farmers are feeling down. The first results of a new study on the mental state of farmers once again corroborate this: the decline is accelerating. A major segment of the French economy is surely sinking into depression. Conducted in the Grand Est region by Abdou Omorou and Florian Manneville, both epidemiologists from INSERM - University of Lorraine, at the request of the Mutualité Sociale Agricole (MSA), the CAGRIMENT study (Promoting the Development of the Capacity to Act of Farmers to Improve Their Mental Health) on the mental health of farmers produced its first results this Friday, July 11, in Nancy.

The agricultural world is suffocating with dark thoughts. Where does the seed that carries this melancholy come from? This is precisely what the MSA is seeking to understand in order to develop lasting proposals aimed at...

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