Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Paving the way for better jobs and improving livelihoods for refugees and host communities in Arua, Uganda

    An Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) for Refugees and Host Communities.

  2. Unlocking Opportunities for decent job creation in Lebanon's Horticulture sector

    A market system analysis of the horticulture sector with a view to promoting livelihoods of Lebanese host communities and Syrian refugees

  3. Unlocking Opportunities for decent job creation in Lebanon's horticulture sector

    A market system analysis of the horticulture sector with a view to promoting livelihoods of Lebanese host communities and Syrian refugees.

  4. Synthesis report: Unlocking opportunities for decent job creation in Lebanon's horticulture sector

    In order to create decent job opportunities for both Lebanese host communities and forcibly displaced Syrians, the ILO deployed its Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) to look at ways to develop the Lebanese greenhouse horticulture sector.

  5. Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe: Challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises

    The objective of this paper is to explore the views of different groups of the business community, including workers, managers and owners of the formal as well as of the informal economy, on how environmental integrity is being pursued in Zimbabwe. Both quantitative and qualitative/interpretative methods have been applied. The paper concludes suggesting actions that the private sector can adopt to improve the existing situation and further strengthen its engagement towards environmental integrity in the country.

  6. Third party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the 2019 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

  7. 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

  8. The future of work in the rural economy: More decent work to revitalize rural economies

  9. 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?

  10. 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.