 Food Insecurity as a Sustainability Issue: Lessons from Honduran Maize FarmingHazel Johnson Chapter 6 in Sustainable Agriculture in Central America, 1997, pp 89-107 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter is concerned with the vulnerability of small producers of food staples in Honduras to food insecurity in the 1980s. By vulnerability to food insecurity, I mean the constant and endemic threats to such farmers’ being able to reproduce their production of and access to adequate food staples. The context is one of inequality in access to land and other resources for production, uneven commercialization and limited opportunities of alternative employment for small farmers. During the 1980s, the Honduran government and other institutions attempted to improve the productive capacities of individual and collectively-organized small farmers by credit and technical assistance packages to encourage diversification, as well as increase national output of marketed food staples to reduce the need for food imports. However, such policies did not always take into account structural obstacles to change. The question remains as to whether such farmers (and their children) can sustain and improve their productive capacities in the longer-term. Keywords: Food Insecurity; Small Farmer; Output Market; Commercial Farmer; Exchange Relation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37808-7_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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