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Project News: Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG) - October 2021 - Issue #8

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Wewak, Papua New Guinea ;

Pages 16

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) ​This newsletter highlights major activities undertaken under FAO-Led EU Funded UN Joint Programme for Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG). This issue focuses on the important, including providing technical assistance to the engaged farmers, rural communities, agri-business partners and government authorities to develop their capacities further to render more efficient practices in the production, processing, and marketing of and policy-making for the three target cocoa, fisheries, and vanilla agri-food value chains. This newsletter also presents how the Programme, in close collaboration with governmental and educational entities, promoted and advocated for gender equality, women’s empowerment, and youth inclusion along all nodes of agri-business value chains. Likewise, this publication summarises the Programme activties to strengthen and improve the value chain business enabler environment and infrastructure efficiency.

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