R011 - Unemployment (Agriculture) Recommendation, 1921

 Adoption: Geneva, 3rd ILC session (12 Nov 1921)

[Withdrawn instrument - By decision of the International Labour Conference at its 90th Session (2002)]

Preamble

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Third Session on 25 October 1921, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the prevention of unemployment in agriculture, which is included in the third item of the agenda of the Session, and

Having decided that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,

adopts the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Unemployment (Agriculture) Recommendation, 1921, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:

I

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Considering that the Convention and Recommendations concerning unemployment adopted at Washington are in principle applicable to agricultural workers, and recognising the special character of unemployment in agriculture,

Recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should consider measures for the prevention of or providing against unemployment amongst agricultural workers suitable to the economic and agricultural conditions of its country, and that it should examine particularly from this point of view the advisability--

• (1) of adopting modern technical methods to bring into cultivation land which is at present not worked or only partially developed, but which could by such means be made to yield an adequate return;
• (2) of encouraging the adoption of improved systems of cultivation and the more intensive use of the land;
• (3) of providing facilities for settlement on the land;
• (4) of taking steps to render work of a temporary nature accessible to unemployed agricultural workers by means of the provision of transport facilities;
• (5) of developing industries and supplementary forms of employment which would provide occupation for agricultural workers who suffer from seasonal unemployment, provided that steps be taken to ensure that such work is carried on under equitable conditions;
• (6) of taking steps to encourage the creation of agricultural workers' co-operative societies for the working and purchase or renting of land; and of taking steps to this end to increase agricultural credit especially in favour of co-operative agricultural associations of land workers established for the purpose of agricultural production.

II

The General Conference recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation furnish the International Labour Office with a periodical report dealing with the steps taken to give effect to the above Recommendation.