Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour?

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dc.creatorFood and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
dc.creatorInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.creatorVos, Rob
dc.creatorTakeshima, Hiroyuki
dc.date2021-12-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:12:46Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:12:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:14:28Z
dc.descriptionThe FAO-IFPRI study, of which this brief is a summary, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other driven implements and equipment in agriculture, with significant potential to replace animal draught power and human power, including children’s muscle power. Tractor use is typically also the first type of machine-powered equipment in use at lower levels of agricultural development, the context where most child labour is found. Mechanization is mostly assumed to reduce child labour, as it is expected to be labour saving in general. Yet, this is not always the case, as it has also been observed that the use of tractors and other machinery could increase children’s engagement in farm activities. This may be the case if, for instance, their use allows farms to cultivate larger areas, or if it leads to shifting chores of work from hired labor to family workers, e.g. for weeding edges of farmland not reachable by machinery. Evidence has been scant thus far, but the few available studies have mostly lent greater support to the hypothesis that mechanization reduces children’s productive engagement. Most available studies have focused on specific cases and based on scant data. The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143257
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98615
dc.languageen
dc.publisherFood and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.4060/cb8550en
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFood and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour? FAO-IFPRI Brief. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7615en
dc.subjectdata analysis
dc.subjectchild labour
dc.subjecthousehold surveys
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectagricultural mechanization
dc.subjectimpact assessment
dc.titleWill promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour?
dc.typeBrief

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