Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) Honduras Country Plan

Honduras remains one of the poorest nations in the Americas. Classified as a lower-middle-income economy, its human development outcomes are among the lowest in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Inequality continues to be among the highest in the Western Hemisphere, reflected by a Gini coefficient of 48.17 that has only deviated slightly over the past five years.

The U.S. Global Food Security Strategy defines food security as the availability to always have enough quantity of food within the community and country; the adequate economic and physical access at the household and individual level; and, the utilization of these foods within the family to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Persistent rural poverty rates combined with both high economic inequality and climate-related shocks have only deepened existing vulnerabilities and food insecurity.