"Zambia: Tackling Child Labour in Agro Sector", 16 Oct 2017

Agriculture in Zambia is growing, but the sector also continues to have the largest share of child labourers estimated at more than 90 per cent. This is according to findings of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which also indicated that the trend has not reduced since 2012...The ILO Global Estimates of child labour Results and Trends focusing on the 2012-2016 interval also notes that a number of children are trapped in child labour worldwide, but the largest proportion of children in hazardous work is in the sub-Saharan Africa. According to ILO' s 2012 study for child labour and modern slavery, which includes human trafficking, child labour remained primarily concentrated in agriculture...The report indicates that nearly 92 per cent of total number of seven to 14 year-olds in employment work in agriculture, against around four per cent in services and three per cent in trade. At the same time, some children in employment work for their families as unpaid labour. It is worth noting that Zambia has made a number of important legal and political commitments to combat child labour...Many of these children work in hazardous conditions and experience greater difficulties in attending and benefiting from school than non-working children...

[See ILO report here].