According to Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE ), Honduras is the largest producer of Arabica coffees in Central America and the third in the American continent, after Brazil and Colombia. In socio-economic terms the coffee sector is very important for the country’s development because more than 120,000 households depend on coffee, and more than one million people are employed for harvesting. According to the statistics of IHCAFE, 92% of producers are in the category of small producers with less than 5 hectares, of which 84% of official owners are men and 16% women. Coffee production faces challenges such as: low production of the farms, inconsistency in the quality of coffee, lack of access to training and technical assistance and financing. In addition, women generally have limited participation in decision making on use of income and investment in farm and household. Honduras is seeing a strong expansion of the coffee producing area which creates environmental risks when natural vegetation is converted into coffee fields. Such conversion may result in reduction and contamination of water supplies and create more erosion, negatively affecting the environment and the resilience of the sector to the effects of climate change.

Contribute to promote sustainable coffee production, which promotes the protection of natural resources and improving socio-economic development and resilience to the challenges of climate change.

• At least 3,600 households producing
  coffee actively involved in training
  processes on sustainable production
  practices
• Increase farmers business skills; 2,400
  farming households trained to have better
  access to financial services (60%)
• 3,200 households trained to increase
  access and efficiency use of
  agro-input (80%)
• At least 2,000 households will also be
  supported to access a fund of $3.03 million
  for credit through the project
• At least 3,600 households have increased
  resilience and capacity to adapt to
  climate change
• At least 3,600 households have access to
  training in GAP; at least 2,400 households
  trained to adopt GAP (60%), which is
  expected to increase productivity relative
  to the baseline production with on average
  20% in the long run
• Improve the protection of forest, water
  and soil quality through watershed
  management, whereby at least 3,600
  farmers are engaged in soil and water
  conservation on their farms and 1 million
  forest and fruit trees are planted on coffee
  farms and watersheds
• At least 1,600 women participating in the
  project trained on coffee and other topics
  of business interest (40%); and 1,600
  youth adults (below 35 years old) are
  active in the program as trainers of
  households (40%)
• 30 organizations strengthened by improving
  their efficiency in procurement, processing
  and selling, in providing services to
  producers such as credit provision, better
  access to quality agro-inputs and in
  facilitating direct selling exporter

• Sustainability of land
• Equality of people
• Prosperity of farmers

• Gender and Youth Inclusivity
• Climate change
• Farm maganement
• Yield improvement
• Water

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