Publications
Working on child labour for food security and sustainable agriculture in programmes and projects
15/11/2022
FAO Lebanon published the 11th edition of the quarterly briefing note designed to introduce a topic related to FAO’s mandate/thematic areas. This issue discusses child labour for food security and sustainable agriculture in programmes and projects, highlighting FAO interventions and impact in this context.
The child labour in agriculture prevention facility
04/11/2022
The Child Labour in Agriculture Prevention Facility supports and strengthens the capacity of agricultural stakeholders to improve the livelihoods of rural communities and reduce their dependencies on child labour. It also highlights FAO's comparative advantage, and the main actions undertaken to address the root causes of child labour in agriculture.
The COVID-19 consequences on child labour in agrifood system
21/09/2022
This paper provides insights and evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses to curb its spread influence the risk of child labour in agriculture through different pathways. It draws on case studies from seven countries covering different production systems: Côte d’Ivoire (cocoa), Ethiopia (cattle keeping and farming), (Lebanon (horticulture and greenhouse farms), the Philippines (municipal fisheries), and Viet Nam (crop farming, livestock, and citrus fruit chains).
A global review of COVID-19 policy and programmatic responses to child labour in agrifood systems
21/09/2022
This review aims to look into the consequences of (1) the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of the pandemic and (2) the policies and programmatic responses to mitigate socio-economic consequences of the pandemic and how they have potentially interacted with child labour drivers, especially in agrifood systems.
Durban Call to Action on the Elimination of Child Labour
23/05/2022
This document is the result of the Fifth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour. It includes strong commitments on action against child labour while raising concerns that existing progress has slowed and is now threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict, as well as food, environmental and humanitarian crises.
Ten years of FAO experience on ending child labour in agriculture in Africa
17/05/2022
This product is looks at FAO activities to address child labour in agriculture in Malawi, Mali, Uganda, the Niger and Tanzania over the decade 2010-2020. It aims at making a practical contribution to the field of child labour elimination in agriculture, by shedding a light on some FAO-supported activities, country processes and practices as well as achievements, and lessons learned.
Report of the Global Solutions Forum: Acting together to end child labour in agriculture
20/03/2022
On 2–3 November 2021, FAO, together with the ILO, the International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture, and the Alliance 8.7, organized a high-level virtual event: the Global Solutions Forum. This had the objective to raise the voices and commitment of agricultural stakeholders, and identify ways to step up concerted action to prevent and end child labour in agriculture
Agricultural mechanization and child labour in developing countries
04/02/2022
Mechanization is assumed to reduce child labour, as it is expected to be labour saving. Yet, this is not always the case. This study, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools with significant potential to replace children’s muscle power.
El trabajo infantil en la caficultura: causas, tendencias y repercusiones para el desarrollo territorial en Guatemala
14/12/2021
La caficultura es esencial en el sector agrícola y el desarrollo de Guatemala. Para asegurar su sostenibilidad, es imprescindible que no haya participación de trabajadores infantiles, por lo tanto, se realizó un estudio por la FAO y la Fundación Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung Centroamérica para conocer la participación de niños, niñas y adolescentes en las actividades cafetaleras.
Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour?
29/10/2021
Mechanization is assumed to reduce child labour, as it is expected to be labour saving. Yet, this is not always the case. The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.