CARE Canada

Published purpose

The project objective is to enhance food security for 21,400 poor rural families in the Choluteca and Rio Negro watersheds in southern Honduras through improved agricultural productivity, diversity and the promotion of sustainable natural resource management practices. The project includes the following key activities: 1) providing technical assistance and training to farmers (in collaboration with the Center for Tropical Agriculture); 2) increasing access to drought resistant seeds for production; 3) promoting the adoption of environmentally sustainable farming practices; 4) providing assistance to municipalities to enable the development and implementation of integrated watershed management and disaster prevention plans; and 5) creating a self-sustaining financial mechanism that enables small-scale farmers to access credit in order to acquire new technologies (e.g. drip irrigation systems) and for municipalities to finance water system rehabilitation.