Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Roll-out of Think.Coop continues in Turkey, now also extending to rural areas

    ILO’s Think.Coop training tool has been rolled out in Turkey by Youth Deal Cooperative - Turkey’s first youth-led social cooperative that aims to provide sustainable employment solutions for disadvantaged groups including youth.

  2. Roll-out of Think.Coop and Start.Coop in the occupied Palestinian territory

  3. Training trainers to promote cooperative development in Jordan’s agriculture sector

    An ILO “training of trainers” workshop strengthens the role of cooperatives in advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in Jordan’s agricultural sector.

  4. World Day Against Child Labour sheds light on working children in Jordan’s agricultural sector

    ILO Jordan holds events for children working on farms to highlight importance of education on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.

  5. Serbia ratifies the Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001 (No. 184)

    Serbia becomes the 17th country to ratify this convention.

  6. Strengthening cooperatives in Jordan to improve livelihoods and advance decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees

    Drawing on the earlier work and pilot interventions, the ILO will further strengthen cooperatives in Jordan within the framework of a new Dutch-funded project on advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agriculture sector.

  7. Towards building a coherent strategy of cooperative development in the Andean Region

    The ILO has been engaging with cooperatives and rural producers’ organizations in the Andean Region with a view to developing a coherent strategy on cooperative development for decent work in selected countries.

  8. A youth cooperative launched to develop the honey value chain in northwestern Tunisia

  9. Employment promotion and decent work for Jordanians and Syrian refugees in Jordan’s agricultural sector

    Norwegian delegation visits sites of ILO initiatives that help workers access jobs in the sector of agriculture and forestry as part of the agency’s response to the refugee crisis in Jordan.

  10. Training of trainers workshop on cooperative development conducted towards promoting a sustainable vanilla sector in Madagascar

    Eight trainers were trained on ILO’s tools and methodologies on cooperative development with a view to tapping into the potential of cooperatives to promote decent work in the vanilla value chain.