New study calls for more research on the impact of chemicals on women’s health

Sweet success: IUF affiliates welcome the decision to reopen Guyana’s sugar estates

Global outrage at FAO plans to partner with pesticide industry

World Food Day 2020: COVID-19 reveals shocking inequalities in global food systems

USA: Labor-farmer alliance calls for food system that works for Main Street not Wall Street

Universal ratification of ILO Convention on child labour: now it’s time to implement!

An ILO Convention has for the first time been ratified by all 187 member states.  The IUF calls for renewed...

India: Agricultural and rural workers look to MGNREGA to ensure livelihoods

Rural areas, already faced with an unprecedented economic crisis, are now being hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tens of thousands...

IUF calls on ILO to help secure wage arrears for hungry sugar workers in Iran

The IUF has called for the urgent intervention of the ILO to help secure unpaid wages owed the 5,000 workers...

It’s time to ratify and implement the Migrant Workers Convention!

Italy: Union push brings breakthrough in protecting migrant worker rights

Sustained organizing and engagement by our Italian agro-food affiliate FLAI-CGIL has won landmark government action to protect the rights, health...

Yes, it is possible to protect agricultural workers and mitigate risk in a pandemic – SINTRAINAGRO shows how it’s done

On March 25 the IUF-affiliated SINTRAINAGRO in Colombia negotiated an agreement covering 22,000 banana workers on comprehensive measures to mitigate...

IWMD 2020: agricultural workers must be protected

On April 28, we remember those who lost their lives because of their work and we campaign to protect the...