Publications
Child labour risk assessment tool for investment programmes in agriculture
28/01/2026
Understanding how public and private investments may affect child labour is a crucial step towards developing appropriate safeguards and mitigation measures. By offering indicators and guidance tailored specifically to agriculture and its subsectors, this publication serves as a project design tool to strengthen child labour risk assessments, taking into account the specificities of these sectors and rural contexts.
Working together to end child labour in agriculture – A handbook on cross-sectoral collaboration for agrifood and labour actors
28/01/2026
This handbook offers practical guidance to strengthen collaboration between labour and agrifood actors to prevent and eliminate child labour in agriculture. It addresses a key implementation gap by positioning child labour in agriculture as both a labour and rural development issue and promoting coordinated, cross-sectoral action on its structural causes.
Child labour in agriculture – Statistical briefing note
27/01/2026
This statistical briefing note examines the scale, characteristics and drivers of child labour in agriculture, drawing on the 2024 ILO–UNICEF Global Estimates. It shows that agriculture remains the sector employing the majority of children in child labour worldwide, with particularly high prevalence among younger children and in rural, low-income and crisis-affected settings.
Policy guidance on eliminating child labour in fisheries and aquaculture
10/10/2025
This policy guidance outlines the drivers of child labour, the international and national frame works that address it, and the strategies and practices that can be adapted to different contexts.
Digitalization and child labour in agriculture
06/10/2023
This publication assesses the potential role of blockchain technology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in collecting and sharing data on cocoa-growing areas in Ghana, and how this could contribute to monitoring and ultimately preventing child labour in those areas.
Elimination of child labour in agriculture through social protection - Guidance note
16/02/2023
The aim of this guidance note is to enable practitioners at national, regional and global levels to adapt social protection systems to contribute actively to eliminate child labour in agriculture by outlining specific steps to integrate child labour analysis into social protection programmes targeting rural households depending on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Voices from cotton fields - Fighting child labour in Burkina Faso, Mali and Pakistan
31/01/2023
This collection of human stories aims at showing how FAO is making a difference by supporting the elimination of child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains in Burkina Faso, Mali and Pakistan.
Approche sur l’élimination du travail des enfants et le travail forcé au Burkina Faso
13/12/2022
Cette fiche technique présente les axes d’interventions mis en œuvre dans le cadre du projet par la FAO au Burkina Faso ainsi que leurs approches et résultats avec un focus sur les leçons tirées de la bonne pratique des transferts monétaires conditionnels (« Cash ») pour activités génératrices de revenus. Elle présente également un aperçu des résultats d’interventions appuyées par l’OIT ainsi que les enseignements du projet dans son ensemble.
Éliminer le travail des enfants et le travail forcé dans les zones cotonnières au Mali
12/12/2022
Cette fiche technique présente les axes d’interventions mis en œuvre dans le cadre du projet par la FAO au Mali ainsi que leurs approches et résultats avec un focus sur les leçons tirées de la bonne pratique des clubs Dimitra. Elle présente également un aperçu des résultats d’interventions appuyées par l’OIT ainsi que les enseignements du projet dans son ensemble.
Unlocking women’s capacity to become agents of change in the fight to reduce child labour in agriculture in Pakistan
09/12/2022
This fact sheet presents the areas of intervention implemented as part of the project by FAO in Pakistan as well as their approaches and results with a focus on the lessons learned from empowering women with knowledge, skills and means to start their own businesses. It also presents an overview of the results of ILO-supported interventions as well as lessons learned from the project as a whole.