Honduras

INDICATORS

  • Non discrimination

    • Anti-discrimination laws at national level

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      No information regarding national ant-discrimination laws

      Widespread discrimination against indigenous and Afro-Honduran populations.  Have become targets for violence for resisting corporate land-grabbing schemes.

      LGBT community not allowed same rights and are targets for violence

      Clashes among peasants and police over fertile land increasingly taken up by palm plantations

      High femicide and violence against women rates; exploited as laborers; victims of trafficking

      (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/Honduras)

  • Outcomes

    • Stunting


      Stunting prevalence in children under 5       Read more

      23%

    • Political Participation


      Rating on consensus building and civil society participation       Read more

      Political Participation

    • To what extent are rural communities shrinking


      % of population living in rural areas       Read more

      1960: 77%

      2015: 45%

    • Child marriage


      Rates of child marriage       Read more

      8% by age 15, 34% by age 18 (DHS 2011-2012)

  • People’s Sovereignty over natural resources

    • Are there Intellectual Property Rights on seeds?

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      In 2012, the legislature approved the so-called UPOV law, the New Plan Varieties Protection Law (Ley para la Protección de Obtención de Vegetales)[1].

      -Farmers may keep, exchange, and even sell own seeds (if properly packaged and labeled)

      -Local seeds may not be privatized if ”discovered”

      -Not all species may be privatized

      [1] Legislative decree n° 21-2012, May 23rd 2012

    • Laws protecting industrial seeds

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      -Farmers may harvest and re-sow privatized seeds, except for a few types, but may not exchange, gift, or sell them

      -Upon (suspected) infringement, seeds may be confiscated or destroyed, and farmers may face fines or jail time

    • Pesticide use by volume and by expenditure

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      Fungicides and Bactericides: 758.01 tonnes

      Herbicides: 4,799.09 tonnes

      Insecticides: 101.69 tonnes

      (2013)

      Slow increases over past two decades

  • Political Participation for the Right to Food

    Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.

    • Legal Recognition of the Right to Food and Nutrition


      Is Right to Food recognized in the legal system       Read more

      The Constitution of the Republic of Honduras explicitly guarantees the right to adequate food to children.

      Explicit protection of the right to adequate food in the constitution:

      Artículo 123: “Todo niño deberá gozar de los beneficios de la seguridad social y la educación. Tendrá derecho a crecer et desarrollarse en buena salud, para lo cual deberá proporcionarse, tanto a el como a su madre, cuidados especiales desde el período prenatal, teniendo derecho a disfrutar de alimentación, vivienda, educación, recreo, deportes y servicios médicos adecuados.”

      Implicit protection of the right to adequate food in the constitution: All people have the right to economic security

      Artículo 142: “Toda persona tiene derecho a la seguridad de sus medios económicos de subsistencia en caso de incapacidad para trabajar u obtener trabajo retribuido.”

      National status of international obligations: In case of conflict, treaty law is given priority over convention. Protection of childhood.

      Artículo 18: “En caso de conflicto entre el tratado o convención y la ley prevalecerá el primero.”

      Artículo 119: “El Estado tiene la obligación de proteger a la infancia. Los niños gozarán de la protección prevista en los acuerdos internacionales que velan por sus derechos.”

    • National Food Security Policy


      Is there a national food security policy with implementation/action?       Read more

      YES, in 2010, the executive branch approved a National Food and Nutrition Security Strategy and Policy[1]. In 2011, the legislature approved a Food and Nutrition Security Framework Law[2].

      These plan are part of a greater “country vision 2010-2038” plan

      National Health Plan identifies areas of urgent and necessary change:

      -Accelerated increase in access to quality health services

      -Increased well-being and health of the majority of the population through the reduction of maternal and child mortality

      -Modification of the structure, functioning and response of the current health system

      -Incremental decrease in malnutrition rates in children un 5 years old

      (http://www.se.gob.hn/media/files/leyes/LC_10.pdf)

       

      [1] Executive decree n° PCM-038-2010, August 24th, 2010

      [2] Legislative decree n° 25-2011, July 2011

       

    • Existence of multiactor governing or decision making bodies for food policy at national, subnational and/or local level with diverse participation of civil society organizations

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      While there is frequent allusion to “civil society actors” in food security arena, there aren’t any multiactor bodies governing or decision making bodies for food policy at national or subnational levels. There is only one multiactor governing body functioning at a local level, the Golfo de Fonseca regional food security committee[1].

      -US Government Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, “Feed the Future”

      -Multiple USAID-funded programs: ACCESO, MERCADO, Dry Corridor Alliance

      (https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/nutrition/countries/hondu...)

       

      [1] Mesa de Seguridad Alimentaria, región 13