Resources on Food, drink, and tobaco sector

  1. With decent work and a sustainable model aquaculture could feed the world

    20 December 2021

    The lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis should encourage reforms towards a more sustainable and resilient aquaculture sector and food systems at large.

  2. Transformed food systems can help achieve sustainable development goals

    23 September 2021

    The ILO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) co-lead a new international coalition to advance decent work for people working in food systems.

  3. Sectoral Advisory Bodies 2021

    The Sectoral Advisory Bodies (SABs), composed of tripartite constituents engaged in economic sectors, were established at the 298th Session of the ILO Governing Body (March 2007) to review sectoral developments and to make recommendations to the ILO's constituents on priorities for sectoral work. Sessions of the SABs are held every two years, and they are chaired by a representative of the Government group of the Governing Body. Following the session held in January 2021 the SABs are to make recommendations on sectoral meetings to be held in the biennium 2022–23 and on preparatory work for sectoral meetings in future biennia. These recommendations will be submitted to the Governing Body at its 341st session in March 2021.

  4. COVID-19 exposes food retailers as frontline workers​

    14 October 2020

    Food retail and grocery store workers have become essential to the economy’s survival and to guaranteeing food security and safety for the population. These workers, working in a labour-intensive sector now considered essential, are in many cases low-skilled workers receiving low wages and inadequate social security benefits.

  5. ILO releases checklist to safely reopen accommodation and food services

    28 August 2020

    Many countries are now entering a new phase in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, while at the same time managing the reopening of the accommodation and food services industries. The ILO has therefore released a practical and participatory checklist to help companies, workers and customers stay safe and prevent the spread of COVID-19 while mitigating the social economic impact of COVID-19.

  6. COVID-19 creating 'lockdown generation' as young workers take the biggest hit

    28 May 2020

  7. ILO SCORE Global Covid-19 Enterprise Survey

    15 May 2020

    Survey results from over 1000 enterprises in 8 countries that will guide the ILO SCORE programme response to the global pandemic.

  8. COVID-19: Informal sector poverty to increase by 56% - ILO

    08 May 2020

  9. Half of world’s workers ‘at immediate risk of losing livelihood due to coronavirus’

    29 April 2020

  10. COVID-19: How social and economic sectors are responding

    21 April 2020

    The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on all social and economic sectors. In a series of briefs, the ILO analyses how the pandemic is affecting the functioning of these sectors and how they are responding to alleviate its effects.