Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

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    • 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.

       

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