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The Fruit of Her Labor : Promoting Gender-Equitable Agribusiness in Papua New GuineaThe overall goal of this report is to assist the World Bank Group (WBG) to achieve greater impact for women from its current activities in agribusiness in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and to provide clear recommendations on additional interventions aimed at improving outcomes for women. The report focuses on the supply chains for coffee, cocoa, and horticultural products (fresh produce), as there is a wealth of knowledge on these supply chains and on gender issues, and these provide the best opportunity to identify entry points for follow-up activities. Given the importance of smallholders in PNG, and the need to understand gender dynamics in farming, this report pays particular attention to the roles and constraints faced by smallholders, without in so doing wishing to diminish the importance of the roles played by other actors in these supply chains.
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Stories of Impact : AgribusinessBy 2050, it is estimated that the world s agricultural system will need to produce approximately 50 percent more food to feed an estimated 9 billion people. In emerging markets, agriculture is the most important economic sector and source of employment; more specifically, 75 percent of the world s poor live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their incomes. With volatility in food prices putting additional pressure on social and political systems, increasing global demand for scarce resources, widespread droughts, and rising concerns over food safety issues, sustainable agricultural development is an urgent priority. IFC also contributes to transforming agribusiness at the country level by working with groups of smallholders and industry associations. For instance, IFC has helped to upgrade the operations of Cambodian rice farmers and millers so that their national industry can compete on an international level. In the following pages, there will be numerous illustrations of the work that we do with our private sector clients, typically combining finance and advice. This powerful combination of money and knowledge helps our clients not only sustain but also grow their businesses, thereby paving the way for robust job creation, growth, and positive environmental and social benefits.
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Lao PDR - Mapping the Gender Dimensions of Trade : A Preliminary ExpositionThe Lao Government has also made
 important commitments to gender equality in both its
 national socio-economic development planning and in a number
 of international agreements. Through mapping the gender
 dimensions of trade in Lao PDR, this report aims to draw out
 key inter-linkages between a more open trade policy and
 gender. Recent export performance in Lao has been strong and
 mostly driven by hydro-electricity and minerals, which
 constituted more than half of all exports in 2010 and are
 predicted to grow even more in the next few years. To better
 understand the interaction between gender and trade policy,
 this paper presents a gender mapping exercise for export
 development in Lao PDR and in this regard presents simple
 recommendations on how to undertake this type of exercise.
 The paper is split in two parts: the first sketches out a
 simple methodological framework that can be used by
 researchers to do an initial mapping of the
 inter-relationships between export promotion/trade policy
 and gender. The second part of the paper is aimed primarily
 at policy makers. It uses the framework to provide a
 diagnostic which examines: 1) sectors in Lao with potential
 for export expansion that could benefit women; 2)
 gender-based constraints in these sectors which limit their
 expansion through trade; and 3) potential impacts for women,
 both positive and negative, from an increase in Lao's
 natural resource exports.