10th Plenary Assembly - San Jose, Costa Rica 2013
Aug22
San Jose, Costa Rica10th Plenary Assembly
THEME
Economic Development
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
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)
PRESENTATION
- Challenges to Realizing the Right to Food in the Hemisphere (Ricardo Rapallo - Keynote Speaker)
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Natural Resources Development
- Food Security
- Group of Women Parliamentarians: Connecting Women's Rights to Food Security
Declaration on the Arms Trade Treaty
Participation of Parliamentarians and Guest Speakers