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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1349 

Recognizing the continued success of the Food for Peace Act. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 10, 2024 

Mr. COSTA (for himself, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mrs. CHERFILUSMCCORMICK, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Ms. 

KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. PINGREE, 

Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. MCCAUL, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. 

BROWN, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. 

BERA, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. 

DAVIS of North Carolina, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. LATURNER, Ms. DAVIDS of 

Kansas, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. 

AMO, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. FITZPATRICK) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 

addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently 

determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the continued success of the Food for Peace 

Act. 

Whereas, on July 10, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower 

signed the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, which created the Office of Food for Peace; 

Whereas 2,400,000,000 people globally, disproportionately 

more women and people living in rural areas, did not 


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have access to enough nutritious food year-round in 

2022; 

Whereas an estimated 783,000,000 people suffered from hunger in 2022, 122,000,000 more than in 2019; 

Whereas, in 2022, 149,000,000 children under the age of 5 

were estimated to be stunted, i.e., too short for their age, 

and 45,000,000 estimated to be wasted, i.e., too thin for 

their height; 

Whereas the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates notes 

that despite significant progress in reducing stunting in 

children globally, an estimated 128,500,000 children will 

be stunted in 2030 if current trends continue; 

Whereas, according to UNICEF, 1 in 4 children, or 

181,000,000 children under the age of 5, lives in severe 

child food poverty, meaning that they eat at most 2 of 

8 food groups needed for healthy development; 

Whereas undernutrition contributes to approximately 45 percent of deaths of children under 5 years old worldwide; 

Whereas significant numbers of vulnerable and chronically 

food-insecure people reside in conflict-affected areas, including Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, 

Somalia, and Haiti, and people in these areas were 

among the largest recipients of Food for Peace aid in 

2022; 

Whereas 9 years of conflict has devastated Yemen, resulting 

in catastrophic losses, displacement of millions of people, 

and one of the world’s largest food insecurity crises with 

half of all children under the age of 5 stunted or chronically malnourished; 

Whereas the United Nations estimates that 18,200,000 Yemenis, the majority of the country’s population and 


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10,000,000 of them children, depend on and are in immediate need of humanitarian assistance; 

Whereas nearly 5,000,000 children were forcibly displaced in 

Sudan by the end of 2023, representing the largest internal displacement crisis for children in the world; 

Whereas over half of the population in Sudan, including 3 in 

4 children, are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and 

8,500,000 are facing emergency levels of food insecurity, 

with 14 areas at risk of famine; 

Whereas almost 32,000,000 people in Nigeria are projected 

to face acute food insecurity in the lean season this year; 

Whereas global humanitarian funding shortfalls risk increased hunger and malnutrition in these and other 

emergency settings; 

Whereas longstanding cooperation between Food for Peace 

and the United Nations World Food Programme has led 

to millions of people receiving critical food aid around the 

world; 

Whereas all food aid modalities, including United States commodities and assistance to help communities be self-sufficient, are critical to Food for Peace’s integrity and longevity; and 

Whereas the assistance provided by Food for Peace programs 

helps to address the root causes of mass migration of 

populations from poverty-stricken and food-insecure regions, including women and children who are disproportionately affected by food shortages and political instability: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) reaffirms that— 


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1 (A) Food for Peace is an essential compo2 nent of global food security efforts; 

3 (B) Food for Peace is an expression of the 

4 generosity and goodwill of the people of the 

5 United States toward the world’s most vulner6 able populations; 

7 (C) food insecurity stems from an array of 

8 factors, including military conflict, civil strife, 

9 economic instability, underdeveloped food pro10 duction and market inclusion, corruption, and 

11 climate extremes; 

12 (D) Food for Peace helps to alleviate hu13 manitarian needs stemming from conflict and 

14 natural disasters, helps to prevent the spread of 

15 disease and malnutrition among pregnant 

16 women and children under 5 years old, and can 

17 help to counteract cycles of violence; and 

18 (E) Food for Peace contributes to the 

19 spread and strengthening of United States lead20 ership worldwide through the investment of 

21 United States foreign aid and humanitarian as22 sistance and is therefore a key component of 

23 United States foreign policy; 

24 (2) commends the Food for Peace program for 

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1 sistance in 21 countries and nearly 3,000,000 people 

2 with resilience-building development assistance in 

3 fiscal year 2022; 

4 (3) commends Food for Peace for supporting 

5 vulnerable communities around the world in coping 

6 with crises as they make their journeys to self-reli7 ance; 

8 (4) recognizes that— 

9 (A) United States foreign assistance helps 

10 create markets for United States products by 

11 reducing poverty, increasing production, and 

12 creating broadly shared wealth in developing 

13 countries; 

14 (B) humanitarian assistance helps coun15 tries and communities recover from serious dis16 asters, crises, and emergencies, and puts them 

17 back on the road to prosperity; and 

18 (C) Food for Peace nonemergency pro19 grams are a critical part of this effort, as stud20 ies show that for every $1 invested in strength21 ening communities’ resilience saves $7 in more 

22 expensive humanitarian aid; and 

23 (5) calls for continued prioritization of funding 

24 for Food for Peace programs— 


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1 (A) to continue the mission of fighting 

2 global food insecurity; 

3 (B) to help to reduce the number of moth4 ers who lack the adequate prenatal nutrition 

5 and the healthy foods to care for their children 

6 once they are born; 

7 (C) to help to reduce the number of in8 fants and children facing the lifelong effects of 

9 malnutrition; 

10 (D) to reduce the number of infants and 

11 children dying from malnutrition-related causes 

12 around the globe; 

13 (E) to continue to support nonemergency 

14 resilience-building efforts to address the root 

15 causes of hunger and reduce the need for future 

16 emergency assistance; 

17 (F) to maximize the economic and intellec18 tual potential of local communities and global 

19 markets; 

20 (G) to support United States values; 

21 (H) to provide for the basic human needs 

22 of food and nutrition and for critical develop23 ment activities; 

24 (I) to affirm the continued commitment of 

25 the United States people and their Government 


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1 to helping some of the most vulnerable popu2 lations in the world at their times of greatest 

3 need; 

4 (J) to promote democratic values world5 wide; and 

6 (K) to protect all food aid modalities and 

7 encourage alignment of food assistance with 

8 other forms of humanitarian and development 

9 aid to best help those in need. 

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