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February 2013
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Cooperatives
Egypt’s farmers: Sowing the seeds of an agricultural revolution
07 February 2013
Agriculture will be critical to future economic growth in Egypt, says the ILO – but only if the laws on farmers’ co-ops are reformed.
January 2013
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Development
Employment in Africa: Think agriculture!
29 January 2013
Why agriculture should be Africa’s top priority.
June 2011
January 2011
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I-News
New UN report says rural women face increasing inequality: Calls for policies enabling women to drive rural economic growth and poverty reduction
21 January 2011
A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.
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News item
UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas
19 January 2011
February 2010
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Video
WIND of Change
05 February 2010
More than one billion people worldwide earn their income from agriculture, working steadily to increase productivity and their standard of living. But farming brings risks that can undermine or even eliminate the gains hard won in the fields. From manual labour to machines, dangerous chemicals and unsanitary workplaces: farming families struggle with dangers at work and at home every day, but there's a WIND of change coming, as ILO TV reports.
April 2009
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Food security
From crisis to crisis: the impact of the global food crisis on decent work
09 April 2009
Since 2007, escalating food prices have created budget turmoil, trade imbalances and inflation and provoked panic and social unrest in some countries. Despite bumper harvests of rice and wheat in 2008 that may have alleviated some of the concern, economies are now grappling with a worsening global economic crisis. Is the evolution of lower prices for grains cause for hope, or will the economic crisis provide cause for fear? The food price situation was discussed in Geneva at an ILO meeting last month. ILO Online asked Dr. Riswanul Islam, Special Advisor on Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction, to take stock of the impact of the global food crisis on decent work and poverty.
March 2009
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Food security
Tripartite Technical Workshop on the Impact of the Food Price Crisis on Decent Work
09 March 2009
The ILO held a two-day workshop on 5-6 March 2009 on the global food crisis and its impact on decent work. The meeting recommended measures to achieve global food security and to involve networks of employers and workers organizations in the development and delivery of national plans to do so.
December 2008
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Occupational Safety and Health
Fair WIND for Safety in Kyrgyzstan
17 December 2008
An ILO occupational safety and health training program for farmers and other agricultural workers in Kyrgyzstan has become a starting point for a broader political process of social dialogue between workers, employers and government.
October 2008
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Microinsurance
Peru: Microinsurance paves the way for social protection in rural areas
14 October 2008
A large insurance firm and an association of water irrigation users have teamed up to become the first providers of micro-life insurance for millions of small farmers in Peru. The project, which has received support from the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will allow a third of rural families in Peru to have access to social protection for the first time. ILO reports from Lima.
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