Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO

Honduras

In Honduras, the “Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO” programme focuses its efforts in the improvement of production systems, income opportunities and linkage of family farming to markets, considered as effective instruments to fight hunger and rural poverty. 

The Programme supported the conceptualization and characterization of family farming in Honduras, the strengthening of the National Committee of Family Farming and the elaboration of a first draft of National Strategy for Family Farming, among other actions. In addition, supported a pilot intervention in San Marcos de la Sierra municipality for the decentralization of assistance services through municipal programs to support family farming. This intervention is being extended to the 91 municipalities in which the methodology is applied in coordination with the Family Farming Unit of the Agriculture and Livestock Secretary. 

Some of the results achieved and the actions that “Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO” supports in Honduras are the following:

  • Establishment and implementation of the Food and Nutritional Security Observatory.
  • Formal approval of the definition and typologies of family farming.
  • Construction and implementation of the National Family Farming Strategy.
  • Pilot exercise to register family farming in seven municipalities, and preparation and validation of the template for expanding the registry to 91 municipalities.
  • Programming and validation of a platform for monitoring child malnutrition at the municipal level.
  • Construction of a territorial strategy for productive development through municipal programs to support family farming, based on a pilot experience in San Marcos de la Sierra.
  • Capacity Building of farmers organizations supported by the municipal family farming programs to link them to markets.
  • Formulation of a Family Farming Law draft and its formal presentation to the National Congress. 
  • Conducting a nutritional study of children under five years of age in five Tolupan communities of La Montaña de la Flor.
  • Construction of a voluntary registration platform for family farmers.
  • Support in the implementation of the Center for Productive Innovations and Water Technologies.
  • Creation of mechanisms for financial inclusion and validation of innovative practices in AMFI, MAMCEPAZ and MANORCHO.