LEISA Magazine, Volume 21
Issue 2 - More than money
Supporting the local economy
The Honduran COMAL network, comprising over forty farmers associations and NGOs, tries to strengthen the local economy by purchasing basic consumer goods from farmers at a fair price and distributing them through hundreds of community shops reaching thousands of families. Strohalm, a Dutch organization assists COMAL in making local production chains longer and replace imported items with locally produced goods. An attempt is made to better integrate the local agro-industry chains for coffee and sugar production in order to keep scarce money circulating through the local economy for as long as possible, benefiting both producers and consumers.
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