Social Protection Spotlight brief
Extending social protection coverage to workers in the agricultural sector and their families: Lessons from international experience
This brief presents the key challenges in extending coverage to workers in the agricultural sector and sketches out possible solutions and good practices countries are employing to expand coverage to this sector.
Agricultural and rural workers in different types of employment face several challenges and barriers due to the largely informal nature of their employment, their exclusion from national social protection legislation, policies or practice, their vulnerabilities to economic, social and environmental crises, and lack of access to information and administrative procedures. This brief presents strategies for addressing such challenges based on best comparative approaches to adapting social protection schemes to the agricultural sector.