Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. ILO Supports Nigeria's Response to Child Labour Emergency

    Nigeria has set the wheels in motion for a remarkable International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL) 2021 with the validation of the second cycle of its National Policy on the Elimination of Child Labour and the launch of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the elimination of child labour (2021-2025)

  2. ILO and Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia launch a project to enhance disaster resilience in Kebribeyah and Jijiga town

    Addis Ababa; Ethiopia; 25 May – The International Labor Organization (ILO) together with the Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia organized an official launching workshop on the project to enhance disaster resilience through employment intensive water works, supported by the Government of Japan, in Jijiga town, Somali regional state, Ethiopia.

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    COVID-19: How social and economic sectors are responding

    The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on all social and economic sectors. In a series of briefs, the ILO analyses how the pandemic is affecting the functioning of these sectors and how they are responding to alleviate its effects.

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    ILO, the Netherlands to take joint action against child labour

    New partnership focuses on global supply chains in agriculture and mining.

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    ILO monitoring of the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

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    ILO calls for urgent action to provide decent work for Palestinian workers

    Five decades of occupation have created pervasive unemployment and a fragmented and ineffective labour market in the occupied Arab territories, rendering the reactivation of the peace process an urgent necessity, an ILO annual report says.

  7. US Department of Labor supports the development of a sustainable vanilla sector in Madagascar

  8. 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.

  9. CAOBISCO and ILO extend cooperation in combating child labour in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey

    Project addresses seasonal work by children in hazelnut farming in Turkey.

  10. Netherlands extends agreement with ILO to combat child labour in agriculture

    Project addresses seasonal work by children in hazelnut farming in Turkey.