Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. The impact of agricultural trade on labour markets

    A new ILO/UNCTAD book highlights the role of agricultural trade in creating jobs and alleviating poverty around the world.

  2. Eliminating seasonal child labour in Turkey

    The ILO teams up with European private industry to help prevent children from working in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey.

  3. Experts adopt new ILO Code of Practice on safety and health in agriculture

    Experts representing workers, employers and governments, meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO), have adopted a new draft Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Agriculture designed to improve working conditions in agriculture which employs some one billion workers worldwide.

  4. World Day Against Child Labour 2007: New global partnership against child labour in agriculture

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) today joined forces with five key international agricultural organizations to launch a new landmark global partnership to tackle child labour in agriculture.

  5. 12 june 2007 - World Day Against Child Labour to focus on elimination of child labour in agriculture

    This year’s World Day Against Child Labour on 12 June is to focus on the elimination of child labour in agriculture, which accounts for a staggering percentage of the world’s working children and is one of the most dangerous forms of work for children and adults like.