Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Norway funds new ILO project to combat child labour in Lebanon

    A new Norwegian-funded ILO project will work to withdraw hundreds of Lebanese and Syrian children from hazardous working conditions and protect thousands of others from engaging in especially the worst forms of child labour.

  2. © Tabitha Ross 2022
    Refugee crisis: Child Labour in agriculture on the rise in Lebanon

    Host to hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the war in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon has witnessed a rise in child labour in recent years, largely in the hazardous agricultural sector.

  3. © ILO Arab States 2022
    Lebanese farmers pay heavy price for Syrian crisis

    The tranquillity of Lebanon's fertile north belies a brewing crisis. Just two miles from Syria and its civil war, local farmers say the conflict has been disastrous for business