Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. Occupational safety and health in agriculture, on plantations, and in other rural sectors

  2. Agriculture: a hazardous work

    The agricultural sector employs an estimated 874 million workers worldwide, corresponding to 27.4 per cent of total global employment (ILO modelled estimates, November 2020).

  3. Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development

    The present manual is a distillation of seven years of WIND experience, drawn principally from farmers' own initiatives to improve the quality of their lives and work. It has been drafted by Dr Ton That Khai, Director of the Cantho Centre for Occupational Health and Environment, in collaboration with Dr Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health in the ILO East Asia Multidiscilinary Advisory Team. Thanks are due to the many Vietnamese and international specialists who provided valuable comments for improving the contents, especially Ms Doan Minh Hoa, Mr Hoang Van Hung and their staff from the Department of Labour Protection of the Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs, Dr Nguyen Thi Hong Tu and her staff from the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health, Dr Nguyen Ngoc Nga of the National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Dr Kazutaka Kogi of the Institute for the Science of Labour of Kawasaki, Japan.