1. Santa Rita - Honduras

“Santa Rita CSV is located in the department of Copán, western Honduras. It has a projected population of 30,682 by 2016 inhabitants, of which 85.2% live and work in rural areas, thus their main livelihoods are related to farming activities. Coffee growing, livestock, and crops of basic grains are the main economic engines of communities in the CSV. These three activities represent 74% of the work carried out by farmers; the remaining 26% dedicate mainly to commerce, services, and construction.”

1.1 Monitoring scope

Ten communities from the Santa Rita CSV were originally selected to be covered by the CSA monitoring: “Tierra Fria” (17), “Aldea Nueva” (19), “Mirador (23)”, “Vado Ancho (36)”, “La Hermosura (52)”, “La Arada (58)”, Rastrojitos (76)“, “La Casita”(20), “Villanueva”(21) and “Queseras (22)”

The initial sample target included (as much as possible) a revisit of the initial households visited for the CCAFS Baseline (HBS) in 2014 and all the direct CCAFS beneficiary households (directly involved in CSA implementation activities).

In 2019, most of the CCAFS PAR activities took place in the communities 17,19 and 20 (most households considered as “CCAFS direct beneficiaries”).

Thus, 5 communities (23, 36, 52, 58 and 76) represented mostly “non-beneficiaries” or “additional” households (potential non-adopters), and due to the COVID emergency they were under surveyed.

This survey was delivered to two adults’ individuals from 143 households, actively involved in agricultural activities of the farm: One was the main person involved in deciding and implementing on-farm activities (MAIN AG). This person had to respond to Modules 1A (Demographic), 1B (Agricultural system), 1D (Personal Financial Services), 2 (climate events), 3 (Climate services), 5 (CSA practices) and if women also to module 4 (Food Security). The second person had to be of opposite sex also involved in on-farm activities. This second person responded Modules 1A, module 3, module 5 and –if women- also Module 4.

A total of 252 farmers were interviewed; 120 males and 128 females, of which 87 were young between 13 and 30 years old of age (45 women and 39 men). Of the 143 households, in 102 we find male agricultural heads and in 26 households their agricultural heads are women, on average we found 5.1 farmers per household and the average age of the respondents is 38.6 years old, 37.9 years in women and 39.7 years for men).

Implementation was carried out by locally trained enumerators using the Geofarmer Smart Monitoring App for data collection. The selection of the enumerators was done by CASM based on their previous work experience and their educational background that enable them to fully understand the concept of CSA.

If you want to know more about the CSV site visit its page here.

1.2 Population covered by the CSA monitoring

CSV communities	Number of farmers	Number of male	Number of female	Number of young men	Number of young women	Number of households	Number of male-headed households	Number of female-headed households
Aldea Nueva	20	9	11	5	7	12	8	3
La Arada	48	25	23	4	5	27	22	4
La Casita	25	12	13	3	4	14	10	1
La Hermosura	6	3	3	0	2	4	2	2
Mirador	24	12	12	4	2	13	10	2
Others	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Queseras	46	22	24	12	11	25	16	7
Rastrojitos	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0
Tierra Fria 1	44	21	23	7	8	25	20	3
Vado Ancho	13	5	8	1	1	8	3	3
Villanueva	20	10	10	3	5	11	10	1
Total	252	120	128	39	45	143	102	26

1.3 Glossary of CSA practices

2. Demographics

2.1 Household size

Average number of people per household in female headed households and in male-headed households.

	Average household size
Household	5
Male-headed household	5
Female-headed household	6

Distribution of the number of people per household

Number of household members	Number of households	Percentage
1	2	1%
2	6	4%
3	26	19%
4	22	16%
5	24	18%
6	23	17%
7	16	12%
8	8	6%
9	4	3%
10	2	1%
11	1	1%

Distribution of the number of people per household in female-headed households and in male-headed households.

	Male-headed household		Female-headed household
Number of household members	Number of households	Percentage	Number of households	Percentage
1	2	2%	0	0%
2	3	3%	3	12%
3	22	23%	2	8%
4	19	20%	1	4%
5	17	18%	4	17%
6	14	14%	6	25%
7	12	12%	4	17%
8	5	5%	2	8%
9	1	1%	2	8%
10	1	1%	0	0%
11	1	1%	0	0%

2.2 Household agricultural labor force

Percentage of households with different number of household members involved in agricultural activities.

Number of members participating in on-farm agricultural activities	Number of households	Percentage
0	1	1%
1	22	16%
2	53	40%
3	27	20%
4	16	12%
5	5	4%
6	5	4%
7	3	2%
8	1	1%
9	1	1%

Percentage of male and female-headed households with different number of household members involved in agricultural activities:

	Male-headed household		Female-headed household
Number of members participating in on-farm agricultural activities	Number of households	Percentage	Number of households	Percentage
0	0	0%	1	100%
1	18	82%	4	18%
2	37	77%	11	23%
3	19	79%	5	21%
4	12	92%	1	8%
5	4	80%	1	20%
6	4	100%	0	0%
7	3	100%	0	0%
9	0	0%	1	100%

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2.3 Average households productive area

Average and total productive area reported by households.

	Averange area hectares
Average farm area with CSA practices (across adopters households)	0.79
Average farm area with CSA practices (across adopters Female-headed household)	0.68
Average farm area with CSA practices (across adopters Male-headed household)	0.82

	Total area hectares
Total farm area with CSA practices (across adopters households)	49.9
Total farm area with CSA practices (across adopters Female-headed household)	8.2
Total farm area with CSA practices (across adopters Male-headed household)	41.7

2.4 Farmers land ownership

Percentage of households, female-headed household and male-headed household who answered “Yes” to the question: “Do you personally own all the land you cultivate/use for agriculture activities?”

	N	All land is rented	I own all the cultivated/used land	Most land is owned, some is rented	Most land is rented, some is owned	Use the land for agriculture, but I dont own it
Households	128	25%	39%	12%	12%	12%
Female-headed household	26	31%	38%	8%	4%	19%
Male-headed household	102	24%	39%	14%	14%	10%

2.5 Educational level

	None (no education)	Primary	Secondary	Superior (University)	Total
Farmers	63	172	11	2	248
Female	36	85	5	2	128
Male	27	87	6	0	120

	None (no education)	Primary	Secondary	Total
Households	34	89	5	128
Female-headed household	11	15	0	26
Male-headed household	23	74	5	102