Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

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    • In order to end child labour in agriculture, we need to examine the cause of it. Two major causes are identified they are: lack of educational centers and cheap labourers. In the absence of educational centers  in rural areas children are drafted into family farming to keep them busy. Likewise, many farmers engage their wives and children as labourers in their farm; they provide cheap agricultural labour. Therefore, policies and strategies that will end child labour in agriculture among other things should focus on:

      1. Rural educational policy that will be effective, efficient and available for all rural children
      2. Agricultural mechanisation policy that will provide cheap labour for all agricultural production 
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    • The said chapters also address Sustainaible Development Goals especially goals 1 and 2; to eradicate poverty and end poverty which is common among the fisher folks. However, the right to fish carries with it, the responsibility to do it responsibly

    • All the chapters are relevant and highly applicable to SSF Guideline. However, I think the 5 most relevant topics chapters are Chapter 1, 5, 7, 9 and 11. These chapters covers all activities of small-scale fisheries management including climate change, gender equality, protection of tenure right, fisheries governance and comanagement.

      also, I think the progress should be measured from the local geograhical scale. That is why participatory monitoring will be a good tool to assess the progress. Often, many data are lost not reported at the national level, couple with the fact that Fisher folks are marginalised, their interest may not be well represented at the national level.

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