Improving Climate Resilience and Food Security in northern Santa Barbara department, Honduras

Farming is a challenge in Santa Barbara Honduras with soil fertility depleted by back-to-back natural disasters and little capital for investing in agriculture. This has forced many residents to migrate to seek employment elsewhere.

The situation is particularly challenging for women who have limited access to land capital and technical assistance in Honduras.

The IAF supports community-led solutions to expand economic opportunities that create alternatives to irregular migration.

Our grantee Red de Comercializacin Comunitaria Alternativa (Red COMAL) helps farmers in northern Santa Barbara to improve production for food security and sale.

Red COMAL will train 10 of its community organization members in sustainable agriculture practices to increase soil retention and yield improve water capture and storage expand grain storage and build resilience to future climatic events.

Women participants will organize a farmer?s market to sell surplus production.This grant is part of the IAF's efforts to address the root causes of irregular migration in Central America.