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One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise and improve provisions
relating to famine prevention and freedom from hunger.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Famine Prevention and Freedom
From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
(a) DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—(1) The first sentence of section
296(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a))
is amended to read as follows: ‘‘The Congress declares that, in
order to achieve the mutual goals among nations of ensuring food
security, human health, agricultural growth, trade expansion, and
the wise and sustainable use of natural resources, the United
States should mobilize the capacities of the United States land-
grant universities, other eligible universities, and public and private
partners of universities in the United States and other countries,
consistent with sections 103 and 103A of this Act, for: (1) global
research on problems affecting food, agriculture, forestry, and fish-
eries; (2) improved human capacity and institutional resource
development for the global application of agricultural and related
environmental sciences; (3) agricultural development and trade
research and extension services in the United States and other
countries to support the entry of rural industries into world mar-
kets; and (4) providing for the application of agricultural sciences
to solving food, health, nutrition, rural income, and environmental
problems, especially such problems in low-income, food deficit coun-
tries.’’.
(2) The second sentence of section 296(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is amended—
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (7) as subpara-
graphs (A) through (G), respectively;
(B) in subparagraph (A) (as redesignated), by striking ‘‘in
this country’’ and inserting ‘‘with and through the private sector
in this country and to understanding processes of economic
development’’;
(C) in subparagraph (B) (as redesignated), to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(B) that land-grant and other universities in the United
States have demonstrated over many years their ability to
cooperate with international agencies, educational and research
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institutions in other countries, the private sector, and non-
governmental organizations worldwide, in expanding global
agricultural production, processing, business and trade, to the
benefit of aid recipient countries and of the United States;’’;
(D) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated), to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(C) that, in a world of growing populations with rising
expectations, increased food production and improved distribu-
tion, storage, and marketing in the developing countries is
necessary not only to prevent hunger and ensure human health
and child survival, but to build the basis for economic growth
and trade, and the social security in which democracy and
a market economy can thrive, and moreover, that the greatest
potential for increasing world food supplies and incomes to
purchase food is in the developing countries where the gap
between food need and food supply is the greatest and current
incomes are lowest;’’;
(E) by striking subparagraphs (E) and (G) (as redesignated);
(F) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subparagraph (F) (as
redesignated);
(G) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph
(G); and
(H) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:
‘‘(E) that, with expanding global markets and increasing
imports into many countries, including the United States, food
safety and quality, as well as secure supply, have emerged
as mutual concerns of all countries;
‘‘(F) that research, teaching, and extension activities, and
appropriate institutional and policy development therefore are
prime factors in improving agricultural production, food dis-
tribution, processing, storage, and marketing abroad (as well
as in the United States);’’;
(I) in subparagraph (G) (as redesignated), by striking ‘‘in
the United States’’ and inserting ‘‘and the broader economy
of the United States’’; and
(J) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(H) that there is a need to responsibly manage the world’s
agricultural and natural resources for sustained productivity,
health and resilience to climate variability; and
‘‘(I) that universities and public and private partners of
universities need a dependable source of funding in order to
increase the impact of their own investments and those of
their State governments and constituencies, in order to continue
and expand their efforts to advance agricultural development
in cooperating countries, to translate development into economic
growth and trade for the United States and cooperating coun-
tries, and to prepare future teachers, researchers, extension
specialists, entrepreneurs, managers, and decisionmakers for
the world economy.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—Section 296(b) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(b)) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(b) Accordingly, the Congress declares that, in order to prevent
famine and establish freedom from hunger, the following compo-
nents must be brought together in a coordinated program to increase
world food and fiber production, agricultural trade, and responsible
management of natural resources, including—
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‘‘(1) continued efforts by the international agricultural
research centers and other international research entities to
provide a global network, including United States universities,
for international scientific collaboration on crops, livestock, for-
ests, fisheries, farming resources, and food systems of worldwide
importance;
‘‘(2) contract research and the implementation of collabo-
rative research support programs and other research collabora-
tion led by United States universities, and involving research
systems in other countries focused on crops, livestock, forests,
fisheries, farming resources, and food systems, with benefits
to the United States and partner countries;
‘‘(3) broadly disseminating the benefits of global agricul-
tural research and development including increased benefits
for United States agriculturally related industries through
establishment of development and trade information and service
centers, for rural as well as urban communities, through exten-
sion, cooperatively with, and supportive of, existing public and
private trade and development related organizations;
‘‘(4) facilitation of participation by universities and public
and private partners of universities in programs of multilateral
banks and agencies which receive United States funds;
‘‘(5) expanding learning opportunities about global agri-
culture for students, teachers, community leaders, entre-
preneurs, and the general public through international intern-
ships and exchanges, graduate assistantships, faculty positions,
and other means of education and extension through long-
term recurring Federal funds matched by State funds; and
‘‘(6) competitive grants through universities to United
States agriculturalists and public and private partners of
universities from other countries for research, institution and
policy development, extension, training, and other programs
for global agricultural development, trade, and responsible
management of natural resources.’’.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—Section 296(c) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘each component’’ and
inserting ‘‘each of the program components described in para-
graphs (1) through (6) of subsection (b)’’;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private partners of
universities’’ after ‘‘for the universities’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(3) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private partners of
universities’’ after ‘‘such universities’’;
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘, and’’ and
inserting a semicolon;
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the comma at
the end and inserting a semicolon;
(D) by striking the matter following subparagraph (B);
and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) multilateral banks and agencies receiving United
States funds;
‘‘(D) development agencies of other countries; and
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‘‘(E) United States Government foreign assistance and
economic cooperation programs;’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) generally engage the United States university commu-
nity more extensively in the agricultural research, trade, and
development initiatives undertaken outside the United States,
with the objectives of strengthening its capacity to carry out
research, teaching, and extension activities for solving problems
in food production, processing, marketing, and consumption
in agriculturally developing nations, and for transforming
progress in global agricultural research and development into
economic growth, trade, and trade benefits for aid recipient
countries and United States communities and industries, and
for the wise use of natural resources; and
‘‘(5) ensure that all federally funded support to universities
and public and private partners of universities relating to the
goals of this title is periodically reviewed for its performance.’’.
(d) DEFINITION OF UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296(d) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(d)) is amended—
(1) by inserting after ‘‘sea-grant colleges;’’ the following:
‘‘Native American land-grant colleges as authorized under the
Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C.
301 note);’’; and
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘extension’’ and inserting
‘‘extension (including outreach)’’.
(e) DEFINITION OF ADMINISTRATOR.—Section 296(e) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(e)) is amended by
inserting ‘‘United States’’ before ‘‘Agency’’.
(f ) DEFINITION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS OF UNIVER-
SITIES.—Section 296 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2220a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(f ) As used in this title, the term ‘public and private partners
of universities’ includes entities that have cooperative or contractual
agreements with universities, which may include formal or informal
associations of universities, other education institutions, United
States Government and State agencies, private voluntary organiza-
tions, nongovernmental organizations, firms operated for profit, non-
profit organizations, multinational banks, and, as designated by
the Administrator, any organization, institution, or agency incor-
porated in other countries.’’.
(g) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE.—Section 296 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘(g) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculture’ includes the
science and practice of activity related to food, feed, and fiber
production, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization, and
trade, and also includes family and consumer sciences, nutrition,
food science and engineering, agricultural economics and other
social sciences, forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture,
veterinary medicine, and other environmental and natural resources
sciences.’’.
(h) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURISTS.—Section 296 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘(h) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculturists’ includes
farmers, herders, and livestock producers, individuals who fish and
others employed in cultivating and harvesting food resources from