UN General Assembly
2008

women who are relegated to a secondary position by a culture and a civilization unable to recover the original dignity that belongs to them, who give life, affection, creativity and courage to change the world. We need to highlight food security by ensuring not only space and opportunities for self-managed production, but also its cultural, sovereign and national identity dimensions. We are calling for greater, better and more timely international assistance for agricultural and fishing production in order to ensure increasing food production without destroying the environment and avoiding the current rise in food prices. Those costs end up punishing primarily the most vulnerable groups. On the global scale, we call upon nations that are heading huge agricultural projects to recognize the tribulations of small local producers, who often are crushed by new models that are arrogantly imposed on them. The question of landlocked developing countries is a fundamental issue in Paraguay’s foreign policy. The disadvantages and asymmetries that that geographic situation has generated and continues to generate can be remedied only through international