Here is the future job – and the jobs that disappear by 2030

A trap.

This is how historian Yuval Noah Harari describes man’s transition from being hunters and collectors to becoming a farmer. In his book « Sapiens », Harari writes that most things got worse for our ancestors when they decided to build a nest and start growing. The farmers were sicker, ate less nutritious food and worked harder than the hunters the collectors had done.

Maybe it was a trap, but so twelve thousand years after humanity first began to plant, water and harvest, agriculture is still a future industry.

World economic forum (WEF) estimates that 92 million jobs will disappear in the world between 2025 and 2030. At the same time, 170 million new jobs will be created.

Percentage, the number of jobs in IT and tech will increase the most; Data analysts, AI specialists and system developers all meet a bright future in the global labor market.

But in absolute terms, the majority of new jobs will be found in significantly older industries – not least in agriculture. There, 35 million jobs are expected to arise within the next five years, according to WEF’s forecast.

How the need for Labor in Swedish agriculture will develop depends on many factors, ranging from climate change and consumption patterns to political ambitions for food production. This is stated by Helena Hansson, professor of economics at the Swedish University of Agriculture.

– The government has a stated goal of increasing domestic food production, but if it really will be then it remains to be seen.

According to Helena Hansson, employment in agriculture can increase if food production becomes greater, which can happen if more Swedish consumers start to choose locally produced. In the longer term, climate change can also lead to greater food production on Swedish farms.

– In some parts of the world, you may not be able to grow in the same way as you have done before. It can increase the pressure on Swedish and Nordic agriculture to deliver food to more people, which could of course lead to more jobs in this sector.

But also with Unchanged production, so Swedish agriculture is in need of new labor. Above all, younger ones. The average age is high among farmers in Sweden today – almost 40 percent of them are Over 65 years.

– It is very important, the whole of Europe faces the challenge of getting younger people to go in and take over the jobs that are already in agriculture, says Helena Hansson.

– But in order for the younger generation to be able to do so, they need to be given the conditions to invest in a farm. And it needs to be more attractive to work as a farmer. In many ways it is still a lonely and tiring profession, but here new technology can play an important role.