Selected ILO publications

Employment

• Promotion of rural employment for poverty reduction, International Labour Office, 2008.
  
• World Employment Report 2004-2005 - Employment, Productivity and Poverty Reduction
  Chapter 3, "Why agriculture still matters".
  
• Decent Work in Agriculture (pdf, 495k)
  Background document for the Workers' Activities Bureau Symposium on Decent Work in Agriculture, 2003.
  

Occupational safety and health

• Safety and health in agriculture, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2000.
  
• Safety and health in agriculture
  Report VI(1), International Labour Conference, 88th Session, 2000.
  
• Top on the agenda: Health and safety in agriculture
  Labour Education 2000/1-2, Number 118/119, vii + 113 pp.
  
• Health and safety at work: A trade union priority
  Labour Education 2002/1, Number 126.
  
• Safety and health in the use of agrochemicals: A guide
  
• Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers
  Hurst, Peter and Peter Kirby, 2004.

Rights

• Bitter Harvest - Child Labour in Agriculture
  
• Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms
  
• Child labour in Agriculture: A survey of national legislation
  

For more publications on child labour in agriculture, please click here.

Meeting reports and Notes on the proceedings

• Sustainable Agriculture in a Globalized Economy
  Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Moving to Sustainable Agricultural Development through the Modernization of Agriculture and Employment in a Globalized Economy, Geneva, 2000.
  Note on the proceedings (also available in pdf format) containing the conclusions and resolutions adopted by the meeting.
  
• Improving the conditions of employment and work of agricultural wage workers in the context of economic restructuring
  (pdf, 11.1MB).
  Note on the Proceedings
  Reports for and of the Tripartite Meeting, Geneva, 1996.
  

Sectoral Activities Working Papers

• The cut-flower industry in Tanzania
  Semboja, Haji Hatibu Haji; Mbelwa, Rhoda; and Bonaventura, Charles. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.152, Geneva, 2000.
  
• Impact of the flower industry in Uganda
  Asea, Patrick K.; and Kaija, Darlison. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.148, Geneva, 2000.
  
• Structural adjustment and agriculture in Uganda
  Baffoe, John K. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.149, Geneva, 2000.
  
• The Dutch flower sector: Structure, trends and employment
  Elshof, Paul. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, SAP 2.68/WP.122, Geneva, 1998.
  
• Productivity Improvement and Labour Relations in the Tea Industry in South Asia
  Sivaram, B. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, SAP 2.54/WP.101, Geneva, 1996.