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The initiative of offering online training to agronomy students at the Polytechnic University of Tapachula, Mexico, provides an opportunity to incorporate social and labor issues into the university’s curriculum. The agronomy and agricultural engineering students are often working directly in the field. In the medium to long-term, updated curricula could have a significant impact if the agronomists and agricultural engineers are taught a basic understanding of key concepts, such as child labor and forced labor, international labor standards, and the national legal framework and the institutions responsible for its enforcement.