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Better data for decent work in the global food system

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Working conditions in food systems remain precarious across the globe. Little scientific guidance exists on what works where when it comes to initiatives aimed at addressing this issue. Investments in large-scale, nationally representative agricultural worker data are needed to properly document the scale and nature of working conditions and better guide policy design and implementation.

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  1. Food Systems Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Eva-Marie Meemken

  2. Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Diane Charlton

  3. Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank, Paris, France

    Luc Christiaensen

  4. Division of Bio-Economics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Miet Maertens

  5. Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

    Carlos Oya

  6. Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Thomas Reardon

  7. World Bank, Washington DC, USA

    Henry Stemmler

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Meemken, EM., Charlton, D., Christiaensen, L. et al. Better data for decent work in the global food system. Nat Food 5, 454–456 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01002-0

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