HN Rural Land Management (and associated JSDF -Developing Central American Small Farmers Links to Specialty Coffee Market )

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The objectives of the Rural Land Management Project are to: a) modernize the system of rural land registration; b) strengthen the forest administration of the State Forestry Administration-Honduran Forestry Development Corporation and promote local participation in managing natural resources; c) improve agriculture and forestry practices in upland farms; and d) rationalize the national protected areas systems. The project will finance a five year program with two components. The land administration modernization component will test and install a land administration modernization system based on folio real. The second component, natural resources management, will finance: a) forest management with local participation, b) improved upland agriculture and forestry, c) building capacity in producer organizations and NGOs, and d) management of key protected areas and design of strategies for self financing in the protected areas systems.