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In 2013, Honduras' National Intellectual Property Strategy was adopted with the aim of strengthening the intellectual property regime. This is a five pronged strategy: (i) education and culture; (ii) science and innovation for health; (iii) biodiversity and the environment; (iv) productivity and competitiveness; and (v) management and enforcement of intellectual property.

The State Secretariat for Agriculture and Livestock (SAG), created by Decree No. 218 96, is the agency responsible for designing and implementing agrifood sector and rural environment policies. The SAG's objective is to ensure that domestic agricultural production is competitive, sustainable and capable of integration into the international economy, while meeting the needs of the domestic market and playing its part in a plan for the sustainable development of natural resources. (...)

Other institutions that make up the agricultural public sector are the National Agrarian Institute (INA), the Honduran Agricultural Market Institute (IHMA), the National Agricultural Development Bank (BANADESA), the State Forestry Administration (AFE) and the Honduran National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF).

The Central American Agricultural Policy (PACA), approved in 2007, is an integral part of Honduran agricultural policy. Apart from Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua participate in the PACA, as well as Belize and Panama. The PACA's objective is to establish a coordinated regional policy which: (i) promotes conditions for the development of a modern, competitive, fair and regionally articulated Central American agriculture; (ii) contributes to the development of a sustainable Central American agriculture from the economic, social, environmental and institutional points of view; (...)

In the course of the review period, Honduras notified a series of agricultural support measures for implementation during the period 2009 2014, as well as the amendment of some existing measures and the introduction of other new ones. (...) Honduras has also maintained three measures notified as measures exempt from the reduction commitment as development programmes: the competitiveness and sustainable rural development project in the Northern Zone of Honduras (Northern Horizons) (project in the process of closing down in 2015); the production solidarity voucher project; and the agricultural irrigation development project (PDABR).

Table 4.4 Domestic support measures implemented by Honduras in 2009-2014 (June May)
Category Name and description of measure Monetary value
(US$)
2009 2014
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box"
Research services
Strengthening of local management of natural resources in the Patuca and Choluteca river basins (FORCUENCAS) The FORCUENCAS (2009-2012) project was aimed at the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in the Choluteca, Patuca and Negro river basins, through the strengthening of local organizations, proper application of related legislation (Forestry Law, Land Use Planning Law, Water Law) and funding to support environmental management investment projects. 99,834,670.6
(...)
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - Special and differential treatment - "Development Programmes"
Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture
Irrigation enhancement project for the western Comayagua Valley micro watershed (PROMORCO) Seeks to raise income levels and improve food security for 1,222 families and sustainable management of natural resources on 5,188 mz (3,626 ha) of land under irrigation in the western Comayagua Valley. 7,000,000
(...)
Competitiveness and sustainable rural development project in the Northern Zone of Honduras (Northern Horizons) To increase the income, employment and food security of poor rural households in the departments of Atlántida, Cortés and Santa Barbara, while reducing their environmental vulnerability. 8,720,000
(...)

The COMRURAL (rural competitiveness) programme seeks to improve the productivity and competitiveness of the rural sector within a context of social, environmental, economic and institutional sustainability. (...)

The PROMECOM project aims to reduce poverty among the rural population of the Yoro department. It is designed to improve the organizational capacity of small producers, position the products of the rural and indigenous poor in the market, implement land management practices and improve environmental conditions in the area. (...)

The Northern Horizons programme consists of three components (...) The aim is to reduce food insecurity and environmental vulnerability and to improve capitalization and rural financial services. (...)

Box 4.1 Composition of the Honduran electricity subsector
The generating stations of the Honduran electrical system have an installed capacity of 1,899 MW (August 2015). Out of this total capacity, 24.5% (464.4 MW) corresponds to ENEE owned hydroelectric plants, 8.8% (167.3 MW) to private hydroelectric plants, 4.5% (84.6 MW) to ENEE owned thermal plants, 20.2% (385.9 MW) to private thermal plants, 8.8% (171.3 MW) to private biomass plants, 9.2% (175.5 MW) to private wind power plants, and 24% (455.2 MW) to private photovoltaic plants.
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