Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. © Abdel Hameed Al Nasier 2022
    A refugee mother determined to provide despite COVID-19

    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, workers' hours were reduced at the farm in Jordan where Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad lives and works. Resourceful and determined, she found alternative ways to earn money to buy milk for her baby daughter. Read her story on our new Voices multimedia platform.

  2. Supporting farmers in water-scarce Jordan through ILO’s labour-intensive approach

    An ILO project in Jordan supports hundreds of local farmers with the construction of rainwater cisterns to help improve infrastructure and agricultural productivity.

  3. Better skills and more formal employment for Syrian refugees

    A new ILO project supporting the objectives of the London Syria conference aims to build skills and formalize employment status among Syrian refugees in Jordan’s construction and agricultural sectors, and improve job prospects for Jordanians in local communities hosting the refugees.

  4. © 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.

  5. Helping Syrian refugees formalize their work status through cooperatives

    The ILO is working with agricultural cooperatives to help Syrian refugees obtain work permits during a three-month grace period announced by the government of Jordan, in a further step to improve access of Syrian refugees to the formal labour market.

  6. © ILO/Khalil Al Jermi 2022
    Irrigation projects aim to ease strain of Syria refugee crisis in Jordan

    A labour-intensive ILO initiative to develop water catchment and drip irrigation systems is playing a pivotal role in creating decent work opportunities in northern Jordan.

  7. © 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

  8. Olive festival supports Jordan host communities in face of refugee crisis

    As part of the ILO’s efforts to support communities in Jordan most affected by the Syrian refugee crisis, the 2014 Irbid Olive and Rural Produce Festival brought together local farmers and businesses to showcase products and explore avenues to develop the olive industry.