Publications

January 2007

  1. Agricultural Workers and their contribution to sustainable agriculture and rural development

    01 January 2007

February 2003

  1. Decent work in agriculture

    03 February 2003

    Labour Education 2003/2-3 No. 131-132: This is not the fi rst time that Labour Education has focused on workers in agriculture, nor will it be the last. The fate of these women and men should remain at the top of our agenda. Not only because of their numbers, but also because of the contribution they make to all of our daily lives. Because of their crucial role in sustainable development. Because of the terrible living and working conditions under which they produce our food, while themselves often surviving on the most meagre of rations. And because their right to decent work has yet to materialize.

August 2002

  1. Promoting the Role of Agricultural Workers and Trade Unions in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

    01 August 2002

    Leaflet produced by ACTRAV and IUF (The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations) to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, August 26 - September 4, 2002.

January 2002

  1. Bitter Harvest Child Labour in Agriculture

    01 January 2002

    "Bitter Harvest" by Alef Fyfe was first published in 1997 to raise awareness of issues to be discussed in the debate on the new ILO Convention on Worst Forms of Child Labour, C 182, adopted in 1999. This new revised version has been updated taking into account recent initiatives to combat child labour.

January 2000

  1. Top on the agenda: Health and safety in agriculture

    02 January 2000

    Labour Education 2000/1-2 Nos. 118/119: For time immemorial, workers on the land have tilled the soil in pain. They have been among the last to organize and, even when organized, their interests in promoting their own welfare in terms of safety and health have suffered through a general lack of attention to the needs of this group of workers. If the agenda of the June 2000 Session of the International Labour Conference carries an item on safety and health in agriculture (first discussion), no doubt ILO constituents have selected this item in order to bring to the fore, once and for all, the gravity of the safety and health problems of rural workers in the hope of arriving at a common strategy internationally.