Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. © Francisco Cruz Anaya 2022
    Good coffee, safe lives

    Briseida Venegas Ramos is president of a female-led coffee cooperative in Veracruz, Mexico. She teaches farmers how to prevent accidents while working.

  2. Paving the road to financial inclusion for rural workers in Nepal

    In remote areas of Nepal, rural communities, and especially the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups, do not have access to formal financial services. However, the Strengthening National Rural Transport Programme took up the challenge of generating access to finance and improved livelihood opportunities for them, and succeeded in collaboration with MEGA Bank, one of Nepal’s largest commercial banks.

  3. ILO supports rural women in Basra to develop their skills in the date sector

    An ILO capacity building training programme for rural women in Basra seeks to foster skills, entrepreneurship and decent employment in the field of agriculture, funded by the European Union.

  4. COVID-19 and agricultural investments in Africa: the year 2020 in review

    The ILO’s Social Finance Programme has collaborated with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF) since 2012, developing knowledge to improve the social impact of agricultural investments. In this article, we reflect on the last 12 months of embracing the realities of COVID-19 and our continued work on capacity building, sustainability management and impact measurement.

  5. © Ezer Mnasri 2022
    A small dam brings a village back to life

    Saida Zouaoui, who lives in Tunisia, has always wanted to carry on her father's legacy, building dams in the Berber tradition. With courage and determination, she convinced the local authorities to support her idea. Today, the municipality of Galâa-Maaden-Forgsan has a dam that benefits both farmers and the local community.

  6. © 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.

  7. New partnership between the Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in Malawi’s tobacco sector

    This new project is well aligned to the strategic priorities of development cooperation between Norway and Malawi, which include a focus on the agriculture sector and respect for human rights, as well as with Norway’s global development cooperation priorities regarding the elimination of modern slavery and child labour.

  8. ILO COOP 100 Interview with Ünal Örnek, Coordinator of the Central Union of Turkish Forestry Cooperatives (ORKOOP)

    Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). The interviews reflect on their experience and contributions in the past and shares their thoughts on the future of cooperatives and the SSE in a changing world of work.

  9. Supporting the cooperative movement in Jordan

    Steering Committee for the Jordan Cooperative Development Strategy holds meeting with ILO to discuss strategy development and way forward.

  10. Latin America and Caribbean show way to green COVID-19 recovery

    Greening the world of work post-COVID-19 could create millions of jobs in the most bio-diverse region on the planet. However, the right policies need to be put in place to ensure they are decent jobs.