Employment of Rural Women in Multinational Agribusiness: Three Case Studies and Some Lessons Learned. Final Report

摘要

This is the final report on the USAID-funded Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP) to document the best practices of multinational agribusinesses in the employment of poor rural women in developing countries and to disseminate our findings within the agribusiness community as a way of improving these conditions of employment more widely. In order to accomplish our objectives, we created partnerships with Cargill and Land OLakes to document their best practices in selected sites. We studied two Cargill operations: cotton purchasing and ginning in Zimbabwe (Appendix XX) and chicken production, processing, and freezing in Thailand (Appendix YY). We have also done a case study of the Land OLakes dairy operation in Poland (Appendix ZZ). In the process we talked to a range of people in other companies and located a number of groups working on issues of equity in global employment.