Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

I would like to share my experience about this problem in Thailand. It may be some positive way, although Thailand is an agricultural society, which is the economic modern development has concentrated only in metropolitans’ areas in urban. And the outer area is a rural area where the majority of the population is earning in rice farming and other agricultural work.

Most of the children labored in agriculture are within their families. At the right age and to be grown enough to help their parents. At the same time, that's not quite for employment, it's more like using labor to work in the house. Therefore, there is no problem of slavery or exploitation of children that could endanger their lives and minds. In the case of partial child labor, however, it is only characteristic of the request for help: to harvest agricultural produce to sell, where wages are fair and agreeable on both sides. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, child labor during this period is necessary and more appropriate than adults to work in the local food system. I don't think there's a problem until the end of child labor in agriculture in Thailand.