Improved economic returns to PNG smallholder coffee producers and the industry.

This project is increasing returns to labour, particularly for women, through the adoption of new technologies and farming practices that improve coffee quality and total production.

This project aimed to develop new knowledge of the factors behind women’s low level of engagement in small-scale agricultural enterprises; identifying the processes and pathways that facilitate their move into agribusiness; and pilot/scale out identified pathways for women to move from Tier 2 to Tier 3.  Women in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG) provide a large proportion of labour for export cash crops, subsistence food crops and fill valuable social and community roles. 

This project gained a detailed socio-economic and cultural understanding of the farming and livelihood systems of cocoa and palm oil smallholders in Papua New Guinea to develop and evaluate suitable interventions to relieve the stressors making smallholders vulnerable to food and livelihood insecurity.  Food security among smallholder cocoa and oil palm growers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is being undermined.