- promote investments in inclusive and sustainable agri-food value chains to generate more decent income and employment opportunities for rural communities, including women and children of working age 15-17;
- develop capacities and hold agri-businesses and food companies accountable and ensure they adhere to the principles for responsible investments in agriculture and agri-food systems (CFS-RAI), especially “principle 2” which calls for the abolition of child labour;
- enhance good business practices, transparency and traceability related to child labour in agriculture along agri-food value chains;
- safely re-open schools while incentivizing school attendance for all girls and boys;
- ensure free access to quality education for all; develop strategies and practices to address and adopt alternatives to hazardous work in agriculture;
- strengthen farmer and producer organizations to help improve productivity growth of poor family farmers, as a vehicle preventing the use of child labour in agriculture.
- remove restrictions that prevent agricultural workers from freedom of association and engagement in collective bargaining to secure safe work and living wages to help lift themselves and their children out of poverty and child labour.
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