The Market Place event took place in Honduras on 31^st of March 2017 in Tegucigalpa. It has been organized under the leadership of FAO (national office and Rome-based office) in partnership with Agrinatura/AICS and ICRA. Participants were the main stakeholders of selected niches (potatoes, coffee, cacao and beans) of Intibucá, Lempira, Atlántida y Olancho departments.

Organizations from the international cooperation, NGOs, public and private sectors were also attending the event. Agrinatura’s delegation was made of focal point for CDAIS project in Honduras and Guatemala, ICRA’s facilitators.  The FAO’s delegation was made of the FAO’s representative for Honduras and FAO’s CDAIS’ consultant in Rome.

The following table summarize the groups represented during the Market Fair:

Reasons of the event:

• To identify the supply and demand of technologic innovations which enables donors, NGOs, organizations for local and national development and stakeholders of Agricultural Innovation Systems to realize a mapping of these innovations.
• To share information and experiences gained through previous and futures actions in market place for agricultural innovation
• To establish partnerships, associations or any other type of collaboration

Market place thread:

• Formal acts
• Introduction to the CDAIS project
• Objectives, needs assessment process, lessons learnt from CDAIS project
• Explanation of the World coffee methodology
• Distribution of working groups
• Presentation of innovative Niches/partnerships’ demands on capacities
• Conclusions and decision on follow up process
• Evaluation of the event

Methodology of the event:

The Market place was organized following the World Coffee methodology, beginning with formal acts, a plenary with a presentation of the participants, an introduction of CDAIS project, illustration – objectives and methodology for the market place. A total of 8 working table (2 for each niche) where actors of the niche took place were organized. Participants stayed 20 minutes at the table and listened to the requirements of innovations identified in the action plans validated the day before. At the end of the meeting, each table came out with agreements of collaboration between the niches’ stakeholders and the organizations able to finance and/or implement interventions for capacity development.

Afterwards, a plenary presentation gave the opportunity to the niches’ stakeholders to present the agreements on collaboration previously agreed. This way, the different organizations clarified concerns and developed the information about the collaborative work to be done.

Eventually, each participant at the market trade event filled an evaluation paper to get its appreciation of the first experience of World Coffee organized in Honduras.

Result of the event

The following matrix presents the agreements decided between the niches’ stakeholders and organizations of the cooperation sector attending the market event.