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4.10. The National Investment Plan for the Rural Sector (PNISR) has set itself five specific objectives:
• promote sustainable rural development by improving the living environment for rural producers, managing natural resources rationally and judiciously adapting local economies to climate hazards;
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• sustainably develop three subsectors – agriculture, forestry and livestock; fisheries; and wildlife – to give added value to Chadian products and make them more competitive;
• sustainably improve the food and nutritional security of rural populations, better integrate young people and women into production systems and strengthen the resilience of rural households;
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4.43. The goal of the Government's forestry policy is to use forestry products to boost development and reduce poverty while protecting biological diversity in forests. The forestry management and conservation regime is contained in Law No. 014/PR/08 of 10 June 2008 establishing the forestry, fauna and fisheries regime. This Law supplements Law No. 14/PR/98 of 17 August 1998 defining the general principles of environmental protection.

4.44. Under the Law, any commercial logging is subject to the payment of fees and taxes. The Law envisages incentives for reforestation. Concessions may be granted on areas of up to 20 ha for private persons and 100 ha for companies. These concessions may be awarded to individuals or communities, subject to reforestation or regeneration requirements.

4.52. Law No. 006/PR/2007 of 2 May 2007 on hydrocarbons and the 2010 ordinance amending it cover activities relating to hydrocarbon prospecting, production and refining and the distribution of petroleum products, as well as related structures and installations. The texts also set out the rules on environmental protection. Under this law, any substances and hydrocarbon resources existing either underground or on the surface are the exclusive property of the State. Related activities, including exploration, production and pipelining, require an authorization or permit issued by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. (...)

4.61. There are a number of development projects for solar power, including plans for a 32 MW photovoltaic power station in Djermaya, 30 km north of N'Djamena. The Djermaya plant will be the first power station in Chad to produce renewable energy and is the first public private partnership in the electricity sector.

3.2. The Medium Term Macrofiscal Framework (MMFMP) 2023-26 provides that the Bicentennial Strategic Government Plan (PEG) 2022-26 to Refound the Homeland and Construct a Socialist and Democratic State is a planning tool for the medium term that sets out the measures government should take to progress towards achieving long term development objectives. It identifies five strategic development sectors, namely: (i) governance, (ii) society, (iii) economy, (iv) environment and (v) security and justice, accompanied by the following strategic objectives:
a. To refound Honduras by constructing a socialist and democratic state built on fairness in order to ensure shared prosperity, and on the protection of the rights of individuals, communities (indigenous peoples) and the natural world.
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d. To ensure the protection of shared natural resources so that they are available to use and sustainably managed: ecosystem resources, water for human consumption, production, hydroelectric power generation, irrigation etc.
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3.4. In order to strengthen growth and diversification in agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras is drawing up a new policy for the sector with its own intervention strategies. The policy will be inclusive and provides for the use of innovative, sustainable technologies to diversify agricultural output and increase productivity.

3.5. The policy [In order to strengthen growth and diversification in agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras is drawing up a new policy for the sector with its own intervention strategies. ] is also expected to reduce vulnerability to climate change.

4.5. Honduras favours the consideration, within the WTO, of issues concerning the dynamic and ever changing reality of international trade, which is why it is making best efforts to participate constructively in the joint initiatives (...), as well as in the discussions on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade and the initiative on trade and environmental sustainability.

5.3. (...) it is expected that President Xiomara Castro's new agriculture policy will have a positive impact and will enhance sustainable growth and diversification in the sector. (...)