Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. ILO sponsors training on agricultural cooperative management through My.Coop distance learning programme

    Since 2012 the International Training Centre of the ILO has organized a distance learning Training of Trainers programme on My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package. The latest edition took place in late 2017, with participation of four participants sponsored by the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit.

  2. ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 2, 21 March 2017

    The newsletter includes articles on various events, projects, training and meetings related to the work of the ILO and Cooperatives.

  3. Strengthening agricultural cooperatives in Viet Nam

    My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative” training took place in Hanoi, Viet Nam in February 2017 after the translation and adaptation of My.Coop to the Vietnamese context.

  4. My.Coop training package rolled out in Mongolia

  5. "Money finds us!" - Enriching the vegetable harvest in Timor-Leste

    How an ILO supported project helped a local community to improve their farming practices, develop their market access, create jobs and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

  6. Agriculture and youth employment: The missing link

    The agricultural sector has a huge potential to create jobs but needs to polish its image in order to attract more young people. To do this, governments should provide relevant education and training.

  7. © S.D. McCourtie / World Bank 2022
    Asia-Pacific on the road to middle-class employment

    A recent ILO study shows that despite robust economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, millions of people are still living under or just above the poverty line.

  8. Making Information Technology Work For Agriculture in India

    Despite a rapid growth in it’s information communication technology sector, the digital divide in India is getting wider. Using IT in the agricultural sector is one solution to help reduce poverty in India and bridge the digital divide.

  9. Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development

    The present manual is a distillation of seven years of WIND experience, drawn principally from farmers' own initiatives to improve the quality of their lives and work. It has been drafted by Dr Ton That Khai, Director of the Cantho Centre for Occupational Health and Environment, in collaboration with Dr Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health in the ILO East Asia Multidiscilinary Advisory Team. Thanks are due to the many Vietnamese and international specialists who provided valuable comments for improving the contents, especially Ms Doan Minh Hoa, Mr Hoang Van Hung and their staff from the Department of Labour Protection of the Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs, Dr Nguyen Thi Hong Tu and her staff from the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health, Dr Nguyen Ngoc Nga of the National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Dr Kazutaka Kogi of the Institute for the Science of Labour of Kawasaki, Japan.

  10. Bonded Labour in agriculture: a rapid assessment in Punjab and North West frontier province, Pakistan

    This Working Paper is one of a series of Rapid Assessments of bonded labour in Pakistan, each of which examines a different economic sector. Dr G. M. Arif, of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in Islamabad, is the author of this paper on bonded labour in the agriculture sector in Punjab and North West Frontier Province.