(a) In most cases, they are not considered to be part of the agricultural labour force, since so few women own agricultural land.

Labour laws do not yet cover workers in the informal sector, e.g. small shops, workshops as well as the agricultural work force.

Statistics showed that in the developing world, the agricultural sector, although low in productivity, employed a large proportion of the labour force.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

Women's temporary labour in agricultural work is high

Outside the labour force

In the labour force

Lastly, measures to prevent the spread of HIV are crucial in forestalling the potentially devastating effects that the HIV AIDS epidemic, by debilitating or reducing the agricultural labour force, can have on agricultural productivity.

NLFS Namibia Labour Force Survey

Ministry of Labour, Human Resources Development. Namibia Labour Force Survey. Windhoek.

11.1 Size of the Labour Force

Other persons outside the labour force

Labour laws do not yet cover the agricultural and informal sectors.

(a) That the majority of cooperatives are agricultural this restricts the initiative and participation of women, despite the fact that women constitute 20 per cent of the agricultural labour force, since they largely perform unremunerated work for the family

Table 3.2 Gender structure of labour force

56. Population censuses and labour force surveys conducted since independence have shown rapid growth in Sri Lanka apos s labour force.

Labour laws do not yet provide cover to the entire Pakistani labour force.

a From labour force surveys, household surveys, population censuses or labour related establishment surveys.

Development of the agricultural sector, which employs a significant portion of the labour force in the least developed countries of South East Asia, is essential for poverty reduction, especially in rural areas.

Absence of protection of labour laws to agricultural labour, the area where most women workers are active, also needs to be considered.

Environmental, economic, social, health and labour aspects of chemical safety, Agricultural and industrial chemicals,

Previous Labour Force Surveys did not address this issue.

Limited progress has been made in the non agricultural labour market and in political life.

Trade and labour market liberalization has also resulted in an increase in casualization such as seasonal employment in the agricultural sector and contracted labour services for other labour intensive activities.

Pakistan Labour Force Survey 2001 2002 released in late 2003.

1) the improvement of the quality of the labour force

Employed labour force, by type of work week and sex

Integration into the European labour strategy would be yet another step towards increasing female participation in the labour force.

231. Costs of agricultural inputs and labour are high (i.e. costs of production have steadily gone up).

In Malaysia, land development policies were combined with measures to raise productivity of land and agricultural labour.

6 ABS Labour Force, Australia, selected monthly summary tables, Cat. No. 291.0.55.001.

Today the participation of women in the labour force has increased considerably.

382. Nearly the entire labour force can be described as being underpaid.

11.4. Employed labour force, by type of work week and sex . 35

Since 1975 it has been carrying out studies on the female labour force.

In Mauritius, women represented a very high percentage of the total labour force.

The annual growth in the labour force has averaged approximately 2.3 per cent.

The ILO also helped the Ministry of Labour to strengthen its labour market information system and to create an employment task force.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

The special agricultural safeguard provisions will remain in force for the duration of the reform process.

The results of the labour force and manpower surveys, undertaken by UNDP and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in support of the Ministry of Labour, were released in December.

It was raining when I left Zimbabwe, but all expected that next year's harvest would be poor because of the lack of a skilled agricultural labour force, in part caused by the devastating toll of the HIV AIDS pandemic counterproductive agricultural policies and practices and a lack of inputs such as fertilizer, seeds and tools.

There are serious obstacles to developing the agricultural sector, such as a shortage of labour, water and marketing facilities.

That situation, however, did not apply to domestic and agricultural workers, who were still not covered by labour legislation.

This gives rise to substantial flows of agricultural labour from one state to another, and even to other countries.