Suggestions for a Nutritional Strategy for the United States Agency for International Development Mission to Honduras

摘要

The report looks at the nutritional status of Honduras, discusses past Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) nutrition assistance efforts, and suggests an A.I.D. strategy for reducing malnutrition in the country. The report finds A.I.D.'s current programs and their planned enhancments, while likely to cause some improvements, are insufficient. The report therefore recommends that A.I.D. help the Government of Honduras: establish a system of clear and stable economic incentives that cause value to be assigned to the time and products of the poor; reorient the provision of public services to assure adequate coverage for the producers and workers in the traditional agricultural sectors; provide immediate relief for the acute nutritional problems of the western and southern regions of the country; and promote national awareness of the need to solve Honduras' severe food and nutrition problems. The report emphasizes that Honduras' nutrition problem needs to be seen as problem of severe rural poverty and not as one that can be solved by an urban-based cheap food policy.