Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Assessing market opportunities in East Darfur and West Kordofan

    In March 2020, the ILO visited West Kordofan and East Darfur to assess opportunities for local economic development.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Fifteen new trainers on My.Coop were trained and 36 coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico benefited from My.Coop training

    A series of My.Coop training workshops were carried out to support the economic recovery of the earthquake-affected communities in the State of Chiapas.

  5. © ILO 2022
    Forced and child labour in Uzbek cotton fields continues to fall

    Systematic and systemic child and forced labour were not used by the Uzbekistan government during the 2019 cotton production cycle, according to a new ILO report.

  6. Uzbekistan ratifies the two Governance Conventions on Labour Inspection

    Uzbekistan has ratified the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129)

  7. Launch of My.Coop Smart

    My.Coop Smart, an online self-paced learning tool of My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperatives, has been launched.

  8. National consultation workshop on Start.Coop in Cambodia

    A national consultation workshop on ILO’s Start.Coop training tool was organized with over 64 officials from the government and civil society organizations that support the development of agricultural cooperatives.

  9. 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

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