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Poverty is deep and widespread in Honduras. This is especially the case in the hillside areas—home to one-third of the country's population, the majority of whom earn their living through agriculture. While both policymakers and donors are under strong pressure to provide adequate interventions, they require guidance on what drives sustainable rural productivity growth, how to prioritize expenditures, and how to formulate effective development strategies. In this report, the authors develop an integrated econometric framework, based on the livelihoods concept, and demonstrate how it can be used as a policy targeting tool. Using this framework, the authors provide policymakers and stakeholders with empirical information on the livelihood strategies currently employed in the hillside areas of Honduras, existing opportunities for alleviating poverty, and potential priorities for policy and investments.

Hans Jansen is a research fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute,Washington, D.C. He was formerly a visiting research fellow in IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division. Currently, he is the coordinator of IFPRI's Central America office in San José, Costa Rica. Jansen earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and his M.Sc. from the Centre for Development Planning at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

John Pender is a senior research fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute,Washington, D.C., where he leads the research program on Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction. Pender earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University, California, and his M.Sc. from the California Institute of Technology.

Amy Damon is a Ph.D. candidate at Minnesota University and former Mickey Leland Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute,Washington, D.C. She earned her M.Sc. at Michigan State University.

Rob Schipper is a lecturer with the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He earned both his Ph.D. and M.Sc. at Wageningen University.

The abstract and report are available for download in PDF format as an entire document or by chapter. The abstract is also available in Spanish.

• Full Report
  (PDF 609K)
• Abstract
  (PDF 40K)

• Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, List of Boxes, Foreword, Acknowledgments, and Summary
  (PDF 115K)
• Chapter 1: Background and Justification for the Study
  (PDF 96K)
• Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Policies and Rural Development in Honduras
  (PDF 81K)
• Chapter 3: Methods and Models
  (PDF 138K)
• Chapter 4: Asset Distribution and Livelihood Strategies in the Hillsides of Honduras
  (PDF 91K)
• Chapter 5: Econometric Results
  (PDF 170K)
• Chapter 6: Summary of Findings, Conclusions, and Policy Implications
  (PDF 50K)
• References
  (PDF 56K)

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