Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Rural women need gender equality, workplace safety

    A strong and positive occupational safety and health culture is vital built on inclusion. However, women especially in rural sectors are often left out. Developmental approaches to promoting occupational safety and health, enhancing access to training and other technical advisory services, and increasing women’s participation can help improve safety and health in the rural sectors and communities.

  2. Gender equality through improved labour standards compliance in the Philippines

    A dialogue on gender equality and labour standards highlighted the need to strengthen efforts to promote rights at work and improve working conditions for women through social dialogue to ensure compliance with general labour standards, including occupational safety and health, and access to social protection and other existing programmes and services.

  3. ILO, ECOP partner for responsible labour practices in rural sectors

    The ILO and ECOP bring together businesses in rural sectors of agriculture, fishing and mining to promote compliance on labour standards, occupational safety and health (OSH) and gender equality.

  4. ILO: 2.2 million workers affected by Typhoon Odette in the Philippines

    One month since Super Typhoon Odette (Rai) hit the Philippines, a new ILO assessment reveals nearly 2.2 million workers have been directly affected.

  5. Guidance for operation and maintenance (O&M) of irrigation systems

    Maximizing local resources and community participation, Nepal and the Phillippines

  6. ILO, USDOL launch new project to support rural workers

    Men and women rural workers will benefit from a new ILO, USDOL partnership to support COVID-19 recovery through decent work, and improve health and safety at work, gender equality and labour law compliance in agriculture, fishing and mining in the Philippines.

  7. The Atom Araullo Specials: Munting Bisig (Little Arm) child labour during the pandemic

    Atom Araullo gets to know children working amid the COVID-19 pandemic and features an interview with ILO Director Khalid Hassan on child labour in a special documentary of GMA News.

  8. COVID-19 pandemic not an argument to stop children's education

    ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Dateline Philippines marked the World Day against Child Labour and featured a live interview with Director Khalid Hassan of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines on the new ILO and UNICEF child labour report.

  9. Improved Workers' Rights in Rural Sectors of the Indo-Pacific with a focus on Women

    This ILO project, funded by the US Department of Labor (US DOL), aims to improve the promotion and compliance to labour laws, occupational safety and health, and gender equality in the rural sectors in the Philippines and Indonesia, with a focus on women workers.

  10. Economic and social upgrading in the Philippines’ pineapple supply chain

    Despite several decades of steady growth, Mindanao’s tropical agro-food industry and the pineapple supply chain more specifically are characterized by a relatively large proportion of workers being linked to small-scale production and low-skilled, labour-intensive and poorly paid work. What is the evidence regarding the alignment between economic improvement of the local industry and the quality and terms of employment realized by its workers?