Question 3) Family farming
Effects of land related factors on child labour in agriculture: evidences from Peru
This study analyzes the relationships occurring between household characteristics, children
individual factors, community/rural context, and their effect on agricultural child labour in
Peru. In particular, land related factors were explicitly taken into account. In Peru the
majority of child workers are engaged in farming systems characterized by great
heterogeneity. Data used in this research derives from the 2013 Peruvian National
Household Survey. A child labour supply model shows that a strict relation exists between
land related factors and child labour in agriculture, both in terms of its incidence and
intensity. Moreover, this relation changes according to land size patterns likely related to
different agricultural systems. Policy makers should take in count the complex relationship
between land and child labour especially with respect to child labour eradication and other
development program that could directly and indirectly increase child productivity in
agriculture as well as labour demand and supply.
博士 Marco De Gaetano