Effects of land related factors on child labour in agriculture: evidences from Peru

This study analyzes the relationships occurring between household characteristics, childrenindividual factors, community/rural context, and their effect on agricultural child labour inPeru. In particular, land related factors were explicitly taken into account. In Peru themajority of child workers are engaged in farming systems characterized by greatheterogeneity. Data used in this research derives from the 2013 Peruvian NationalHousehold Survey. A child labour supply model shows that a strict relation exists betweenland related factors and child labour in agriculture, both in terms of its incidence andintensity. Moreover, this relation changes according to land size patterns likely related todifferent agricultural systems. Policy makers should take in count the complex relationshipbetween land and child labour especially with respect to child labour eradication and otherdevelopment program that could directly and indirectly increase child productivity inagriculture as well as labour demand and supply.