Economic Development
10th ParlAmericas Plenary Assembly

PRESENTATION

• Challenges to Realizing the Right to Food in the Hemisphere (Ricardo Rapallo – Keynote Speaker)

Participation of Parliamentarians and Guest Speakers

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

• Natural Resources Development
• Food Security
• Group of Women Parliamentarians: Connecting Women’s Rights to Food Security

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)