Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. 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.

  2. Hans Lind, Interim Country Representative for Colombia and Senior Advisor on Cooperative Development at We Effect

    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.

  3. A new ILO training programme on activating agricultural cooperatives in the elimination of child labour piloted in Tanzania

    The new training programme was developed to strengthen the capacities of cooperatives as part of ILO’s projects on the elimination of child labour in multiple African countries.

  4. Training of Trainers on Start.Coop is carried out towards building a sustainable vanilla sector in Madagascar

    Twenty trainers were trained on the Start.Coop training modules and methodologies as part of an ILO project to advance decent work and fight against child labour in the vanilla sector in Madagascar.

  5. The “Possible Trinity” of Agricultural Investment Policies: Enhancing Employment Creation, Productivity and Sustainability of Agricultural Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 249

  6. Africa’s employment landscape

    Following Africa Industrialization Day earlier this month, which focused on the expansion of the region’s manufacturing sector.

  7. Promoting decent work in the rural economy: Lessons from Zimbabwe (2008–2018)

    This paper, a desk review, presents a documentation of ILO interventions in Zimbabwe’s rural economy during the period 2008–18 that also extracts lessons learnt.

  8. Analysis of the situation and evaluation of the needs of cooperative societies of cotton producers in Burkina Faso for the promotion of fundamental principles and rights at work

  9. GDA Pure Nature: Empowering rural women thorough a cheese making cooperative in Tunisia

    “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Ms. Rihem Bchini, President of GDA Pure Nature – an agricultural cooperative of rural women workers in Tunisia.

  10. Training of trainers on Think.Coop and Start.Coop in Comoros