Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Voluntary social initiatives in fresh fruit and vegetable value chains

    Employment Working Paper No. 23

  2. Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms

    Four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006.

  3. Coffee in Kenya: Some challenges for decent work

    Working Paper 260

  4. Future harvests without child labour

    The vast majority of the world’s working children are not toiling in factories and sweatshops or working as domestics or street vendors in urban areas. They are working on farms and plantations, often from sun-up to sundown, planting and harvesting crops, spraying pesticides and tending livestock.

  5. C 81 Labour Inspection Convention and C 129 Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention

  6. Responses to changing Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) needs of National Agricultural research Systems (NARS)in the context of globalization

    The threats and challenges to the agricultural sector in developing countries currently outweigh the opportunities and potential, hence the need to tilt the balance to the benefit side of the equation. The challenges are many and appear daunting but scientific research, and technology development accompanied by complementary policy adjustments and strategies (as promoted in the World Commission Report on Social Dimension of Globalization) can effectively deal with them, and the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) have a central role to play in generating the knowledge, technology and information required.

  7. 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.

  8. Bonded Labour in agriculture: a rapid assessment in Sindh and Balochistan, 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. The aim of these studies is to inform the implementation of the Government of Pakistan’s National Policy and Plan of Action for the Abolition of Bonded Labour, adopted in 2001. Maliha Hussein and her collaborators were responsible for preparation of this paper on bonded labour in the agriculture sector in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. It should be read in conjunction with a companion paper that covers Punjab and North West Frontier Province.

  9. Facts on Agriculture

  10. Sustainable agriculture in a globalized economy. Report TMAD/2000/13

    Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Moving to Sustainable Agriculture Development through the Modernization of Agriculture and Employment in a Globalized Economy, TMAD/2000