Honduras and Nicaragua Dairy
Value Chain Component Situation
Report 2012
Rein Van der Hoek
Livestock and Fish Value Chain
Component Planning Meeting, Nairobi
Kenya, 6-7 December 2012

CRP 3.7
Dairy Value Chain - Nicaragua/Honduras
Nicaragua and Honduras

Priority regions
• Nicaragua
Matagalpa
Boaco
RAAS
• Honduras
Yoro (Centro - Norte)
??

Gaps
• Integrated analysis and innovation of value chains
• M&E and gender analysis needed to strengthen to
achieve large scale equitable impacts
• Processing of dairy products, quality
• Marketing, enterpreneurship
• Seed accessibility for small farmers – need for private
sector seed partner
• Dry season feed availability
• Genetics, husbandry, health
• Secured funding for working with partners, operations
and staff

Entry points to enhance smallholder dairy
production: Overcoming production, supply and
market constraints
• Production: Enhancing dairy productivity and quality, genetics,
added value
• Supply: Overcoming seasonal variation and improving quality and
hygiene
• Market/Institutions: Responding to increasingly stringent food
safety standards for internal and external markets (trade
liberalization and urbanization)
• Collaboration with dairy industry: Increase in milk production
(emphasis on dry season) and milk quality (hygiene); added value
(products, certification, carbon insetting)
• Other considerations: Social justice (gender, value chain equity),
ecological footprint and market differentiation

Funding Opportunities
Theme (potential) Donor Probability
Dry season forage options and dairy USDA through CRS Approved,
processing starts early
2013
Carbon insetting in dairy value chains BMZ (small grant) High
Improving productivity and mitigating climate Netherlands Fair
change through climate smart, forage based Government (FSP)
livestock systems – CAC and EA / Solidaridad
Improving competitiveness of small farmers CFC Fair
in dairy value chains – partial loan-based,
involvement farmer cooperatives and private
sector
Increasing the productivity of dual-purpose ADA High
cattle in Nicaragua through use of
appropriate breed types and application of
best husbandry practices
Scaling of technologies – development focus IDB, … High

Current status
Proposal development
• In collaboration with CRS, GIZ, Solidaridad, ILRI
Development toolkit value chain assessment
• Process guidelines and protocols finalized end of 2012
• Full toolkit ready for adaptation for specific value chains by
beginning 2013
Targeting/Implementation
• Oct 2012: stakeholders workshop in Nicaragua with partners
(INTA, UCA, , etc.), including private sector (dairy industry) and
farmers’ representations

Planning for 2013
Component Activity Timeframe
Targeting Characterizing areas VC- activities Q1
through GIS inputs and follow-up
stakeholder workshops: selection
intervention sites
Ex-ante impact of best-bet Q2-3
interventions
VC-assessments Secondary data analysis, surveys, Q2-4
intervention sites expert meetings .. along the VC ..
Project current (BNI) and new (ADA-ILRI- Q1-4
implementation CIAT-UNA-BOKU genetic
improvement), ??, within LaF
framework
Proposal In collaboration with Solidaridad, Q1
development ILRI-CIAT, CFC,… (Solidaridad),
Q1-2 (CFC)
Q1-4 (others)

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