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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 193

Honoring the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

on its fiftieth anniversary and reaffirming the United States commitment

to end hunger and malnutrition.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 5, 1993

Mr. DE LA GARZA (for himself, Mr. ROSE, Mr. MCDADE, Ms. DANNER, Mr.

SCOTT, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. HALL of Ohio, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. FILNER, Ms.

SLAUGHTER, Mr. EMERSON, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. HOCHBRUECKNER, Mr.

STOKES, Mr. SARPALIUS, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. WHEAT,

Mr. EVANS, Mr. SABO, Mr. LANCASTER, Mr. COOPER, Mr. KREIDLER,

Mr. EDWARDS of Texas, Mr. TORRES, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. INSLEE, Mr.

RUSH, Mr. WALSH, Mr. OLVER, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. FROST,

Mr. SKEEN, Mr. LIVINGSTON, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. SANDERS, Mr.

HUGHES, and Mr. LEACH) introduced the following joint resolution;

which was referred jointly to the Committees on Post Office and Civil

Service and Agriculture

JOINT RESOLUTION

Honoring the Food and Agricultural Organization of the

United Nations on its fiftieth anniversary and

reaffirming the United States commitment to end hunger

and malnutrition.

Whereas, with each passing hour, more than one thousand

young children die among the poor of Asia, Africa, and
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Latin America, lost to their families because their parents could not feed them;

Whereas, for lack of food, millions of the world’s poor are left

stunted, mentally retarded or blind, and countless others

are continually weakened by anemia, condemned to do little more than survive;

Whereas world population will climb past six billion by the

year 2000, placing ever more intense demands on our agricultural production and environment;

Whereas this growth in global population will require innovative scientific, economic, and political measures to address hunger among the poor, especially to promote more

efficient and sustainable agricultural production and a

broader distribution of food;

Whereas, if we are to further build world agriculture to meet

these challenges, we must strengthen and not lessen

international cooperation in agriculture both bilaterally

and through the United Nations;

Whereas fifty years ago, in the midst of World War II, the

United States and its allies recognized the need for global

cooperation to end the scourge of hunger and took the

first steps to found the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at the first United Nations

Conference on Food and Agriculture held at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia, May 18–June 3, 1943;

Whereas, through advances in agricultural technology, the

nations of the world—including the developing countries—now have more than enough food to feed every

man, woman, and child so that suffering from hunger

need not continue;
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Whereas, while more than twice the number of people are

being adequately fed today than at the end of the Second

World War, nearly eight hundred million people remain

chronically hungry and we still have not met the goal of

‘‘freedom from want of food’’ that President Franklin

Roosevelt set in convening the Hot Springs Conference;

Whereas, at the International Conference on Nutrition in December 1992, many of the goals of the Hot Springs Conference were reaffirmed and the United States and one

hundred and fifty-eight other countries committed themselves to ending hunger and malnutrition, both domestically and through a Global Plan of Action for Nutrition;

and

Whereas the United States has agreed to adopt its own National Plan of Action for Nutrition by the end of 1994;

Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 That to call upon the President of the United States to

4 issue a proclamation honoring the Food and Agriculture

5 Organization of the United Nations on the fiftieth anni6 versary of its beginnings at Hot Springs, Virginia. In issu7 ing this proclamation, the Congress authorizes and re8 quests the President to reaffirm the commitment of the

9 American people to end hunger and malnutrition, both at

10 home and abroad, and to foster the growth of agriculture

11 in every quarter of the globe so that one day mankind

12 may be truly free from want of food.
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