The creation of green jobs in agriculture requires state action to protect natural resources, encouraging sustainable practices to prevent pollution, while at the same time ensuring compliance with labour legislation and workers’ fundamental rights.
ILO Voices offers first-person perspectives on the world of work. In this article, Cristina Carro speaks about the impact of the transition from coal mining to a new job.
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Over the past decade, a low-wage workforce that chases solar installation projects from state to state for meager wages has proliferated around the country.
The issue is not simply a matter of bringing the environmental movement and the labour movement together; each must be transformed if the sum is to be more than the currently limited parts.
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