How can ILO and FAO jointly fight against child labour?
We are all working towards the same goal. FAO fights against poverty by raising nutritional levels and living standards, improving agricultural productivity and better the condition of rural people. This helps the situation of many parents to make working unnecessary for their children. The main factor of child labour is poverty. When parents are badly remunerated or don’t have jobs, children must work to supplement family income. In many cases their survival and that of their family depends on it. Child workers are not able to attend school and in the long run, in adulthood, have less employment opportunities and insufficient income. FAO, in this sense can assist in enhancing agriculture productivity and technology and help organize communities to make sure that families can have enough income. The FAO-UNESCO initiative Education for Rural People [for more information please read the August update] seeks the enhancement of education in rural areas to guarantee food security and povert
We are all working towards the same goal. FAO fights against poverty by raising nutritional levels and living standards, improving agricultural productivity and better the condition of rural people. This helps the situation of many parents to make working unnecessary for their children. The main factor of child labour is poverty. When parents are badly remunerated or don’t have jobs, children must work to supplement family income. In many cases their survival and that of their family depends on it. Child workers are not able to attend school and in the long run, in adulthood, have less employment opportunities and insufficient income. FAO, in this sense can assist in enhancing agriculture productivity and technology and help organize communities to make sure that families can have enough income. The FAO-UNESCO initiative Education for Rural People [for more information please read the August update] seeks the enhancement of education in rural areas to guarantee food security and povert
