Setting adequate wages: a focus on agriculture (SAW)

The present project promotes the setting of adequate wages in agriculture through statutory minimum wages and/or collective bargaining as a means to enable decent living standards for workers and their families, while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of enterprises which create the jobs for these workers. As many workers in agriculture are independent workers, the project also seeks to explore how interventions on different economic factors, including measures to increase productivity, might be combined to raise their labour incomes. The project engages with existing living wage initiatives, inviting them to take into account evidence on both needs of workers and their families and economic factors. It also undertakes research on the question of living income and explores what the concept of a living income could mean for self-employed workers, like smallholder farmers, who do not earn a wage, but seek to cover their needs by selling their goods and services on the market.

Project symbol

GLO/23/30/DEU

Admin unit

INWORK

Start date

15/12/2023

End date

31/01/2028

Total allocation

3248013

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1855389

Development Partners

Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all