Agricultural Supply Chains

Expected outcomes

Through this Action, the Fund will combine interregional and country-level activities to build and expand on the results achieved to date through its work in the coffee and sugar cane supply chains, focusing on the transfer of knowledge on good practices and lessons learned and of existing OSH methodologies and tools to ILO constituents and other sectoral stakeholders, as relevant.

BRAZIL

Coffee

Following the findings of the assessment to improve occupational safety and health in Brazil’s coffee supply chains through cooperative development, the Fund developed capacity development materials (see here and here) for implementing training and technical assistance activities targeting coffee cooperatives, smallholder producers, and workers to strengthen their capacity to promote OSH and uphold other fundamental principles and rights at work throughout the coffee supply chain

COLOMBIA

Coffee

The Fund is working in Risaralda, providing technical assistance to a tripartite social dialogue body for strengthening the integration of OSH components within their strategies / workplans, and transferring tools and methodologies for OSH risk management in the agriculture and coffee sectors to relevant constituents, including members of tripartite social dialogue bodies, their territorial leaders, and cooperatives, among others.

Sugar cane

The Fund completed a study of drivers and constraints for improving OSH in the sugarcane supply chain in Colombia and on the health and working conditions of vulnerable workers in the panela sector (in Spanish).

The Fund is implementing the SHIELD training package — a participatory approach to strengthening the OSH capacities of supervisors and leaders in the sugarcane supply chain, offering practical guidance for safe practices across the field and harvest stages.

GLOBAL

The focus of this action is on:

• Monitoring workplace level improvements, identifying OSH measures being adopted, changes in practices, attitudes, and key OSH.
• Promoting knowledge sharing among governments, employers’, and workers` organizations and their representatives from coffee producing countries in African and Latin America.