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This information note aims at outlining what are child labour and social protection, how social protection can significantly contribute to eliminating child labour in agriculture, and what are FAO’s planned efforts to leverage on social protection interventions to generate knowledge and increase impact at country level on child labour elimination. ...

Considering the impact that the recent flow of migration to Chile has had, especially in the labor market, along with the broader trend of declining agricultural occupation that the country has experienced in recent decades, the FAO, the Organization International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Labor Organization (ILO)...

More than 70 percent of the population in the Central African Republic is under 35 years of age. Social and economic exclusion, compounded by a poverty rate of more than 60 percent, has hit the rural population hard, posing a challenge to the country’s peace and stability. The country’s agricultural...

The policy brief reviews the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants working in agri-food systems and their families in rural areas of origin. It points out some of the policy implications and presents key policy recommendations. Measures affecting the movement of people (internally and internationally) and resulting labour shortages,...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major economic and labour market shock, presenting significant impacts in terms of unemployment and underemployment for informal workers. In rural areas, the livelihoods of especially the self-employed and wage workers are at risk, because agri-food supply chains and markets are being disrupted due to lockdowns...