FOCUS COUNTRY: HONDURAS

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America where over half the population lives in poverty and even higher rates in rural areas. Challenges to development in Honduras include conflict, migration, drug trafficking, and corruption. Food insecurity and malnutrition have worsened because of droughts in the southern and western regions of the country, known as the Dry Corridor, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the hurricanes Eta and Iota.

IFPRI, collaborates closely with partners in Honduras and internationally to better understand and address these challenges. This includes studying the impact of the USAID Feed the Future initiative in the western departments and the impact of the Honduran Government’s Dry Corridor Alliance on the nutrition and food security of small agricultural households. We also monitor migration patterns by designing and implementing a tool that measures the propensity to migrate. IFPRI evaluates value chain programs to improve agricultural productivity, household income, and nutrition in rural areas in the dry corridor. We provide insights to guide investments in development projects among most needed areas and establish monitoring systems using machine learning to improve the targeting and delivery of agricultural training, nutrition activities, and agricultural inputs delivery.

Project Page: Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction

Measuring changes in the Honduras’s agri-food system

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