UN Backed Project to Benefit Rural Hondurans

Small producers in rural areas of Honduras will be the main beneficiaries of a new United Nations-backed project that will invest $21 million to combat poverty in the north of the country.

The project, signed today by the Honduran Government and the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), aims to facilitate market access for small producers and establish relationships with the private sector to ensure its profitability. “The Northern Horizons Project is intended to boost competitiveness, income, and food security for small producers in 27 municipalities with high concentrations of rural poverty in the departments of Atlántida, Cortés, and Santa Bárbara,” said Enrique Murguia, coordinator of IFAD projects in Central America.

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