Accelerating action to help to end child labour in agriculture in Africa
Child labour in agriculture is both a social, economic, and livelihood issue. The cross-cutting nature requires a multiple stakeholder approach in addressing its root causes. In sub-Saharan Africa, the phenomena exist mainly within smallholder farmers but also significantly in capture fishing, livestock, and forestry. Today, the proportion of child labour in agriculture remains at 70 percent. This figure has barely changed over the last decade. What has made this more devasting is the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic which is set to increase the incidence of child labour to exponential levels if stakeholders do not act immediately. To break this vicious cycle and increase the pace of work to end child labour in agriculture, stakeholders should invest into agri-food systems, enhance social protection schemes, governments should make agriculture part of primary education, build the capacity of stakeholders to effect a behavioural change, and develop the required systems to collect data for decision making. These will go a long way as a catalyst to speed up collective efforts to end child labour in agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
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| Format: | Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2021
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CB6869EN http://www.fao.org/3/cb6869en/cb6869en.pdf |
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