Honduras: project paper natural resources management. Project number: 522-0168. Loan Number: 522-T-041

Representatives of the Honduras Forestry Development Corporation (COHDEFOR), National Cadaster Program (PCN), Superior Planning Council (CONSUPLANE) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) have worked closely with Mission staff on all aspects of the Project's design. There are, accordingly, no major issues which will not be adquately addresses in the Conditions Precedent to Disbursement of the Project Agreement. USAID Honduras recommends, therefore, authorization of a long of 12,252,000 an a grant of 2,743,000 to assist in financing the Natural Resources Management Project. The purpose of this Project is to strengthen institutional mechanisms through which the Government of Honduras manages the country's natural resources, and to undertake an action program in the Choluteca Watershed to increase farmers' income and to conserve soil and water resources. The Project will improve the natural resource data base, policy, planning, management and implementation of projects which will strengthen current and future programs to improve utilization and conservation of Honduras' land, water, soils and forest resources. The Watershed Management program, the largest element of the Project, will build the GOH manpower and organization base todeliver improved conservation and agricultural technologies to hillside farmers. It will result in halting or reversing severe erosion in one-half of the farm lands at risk in the Choluteca Basin

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Main Author: 2527 AID, WASHINGTON, D.C. (EUA)
Format: biblioteca
Published: Washington, D.C. (EUA), [1980]
Subjects:PLANES, PROGRAMAS Y PROYECTOS, COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL, POLITICAS, ANALISIS ECONOMICO, PLANIFICACION, INCENTIVOS, CUENCAS, EVALUACIÓN, PLANTACION, COSTOS, DEFORESTACION, USO DE LA TIERRA, VIVEROS, ANALISIS DE COSTOS Y BENEFICIOS, HONDURAS,
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