August 22, 2013 | San Jose, Costa Rica
Economic Development
10th ParlAmericas Plenary Assembly
10th ParlAmericas Plenary Assembly
PRESENTATION
- Challenges to Realizing the Right to Food in the Hemisphere (Ricardo Rapallo – Keynote Speaker)
OBJECTIVES
- To discuss the topics of food security, natural resources development, and connecting women’s rights to food security
- To develop recommendations for the hemisphere’s parliaments with the guidance of experts
WORKING GROUPS 1. Natural Resources Development 2. Food Security Meeting of the Group of Women Parliamentarians: Connecting Women’s Rights to Food Security
RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTICLES
- Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Change (Gleyse Peiter – Working Group 1)
- Natural Capital and Economic Growth: Policy Lessons from Costa Rica (Carlos Manuel Rodríguez – Working Group 1)
- The Current Consumption Model and its Impacts on Food Security (Xaviera Cabada Barrón – Working Group 2)
- The Importance of Food Security for Decision Making in the Fight Against Hunger (Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez – Working Group 2)
- The Political Commitment towards Food Security and Women’s Rights: A Parliamentary Challenge (Guadalupe Valdez – Group of Women Parliamentarians)
- Strategies to Enhance Women’s Leadership to Address Food and Nutrition Security Under a Changing Climate (Cristina Tirado – Group of Women Parliamentarians)
