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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4002
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise and improve
provisions relating to famine prevention and freedom from hunger.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 16, 2000
Mr. BRADY of Texas (for himself, Mr. DAVIS of Florida, and Mr. BEREUTER)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
International Relations
A BILL
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 Representa-
tives 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 sen-
tence 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 mu-
tual 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
their public and private partners in the United States and
other countries for (1) global research on problems affect-
ing food, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, (2) improved
human capacity and institutional resource development for
the global application of agricultural and related environ-
mental 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 markets, and (4) providing for the application
of agricultural sciences to solving food, health, nutrition,
rural income, and environmental problems, especially such
problems of low-income, food deficit countries.’’.
(2) The second sentence of section 296(a) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is
amended—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘in this coun-
try’’ and inserting ‘‘with and through the private
sector in this country and to understanding proc-
esses of economic development’’;
‘‘(4) that the engagement of land-grant univer-
sities in agricultural development in other countries
strengthens the competitiveness of United States ag-
riculture and other industries by training future for-
eign partners and by introducing global perspectives
into United States curriculum, research, public in-
formation services, and other extension programs of
the land-grant universities;’’;
(E) by striking paragraphs (5) and (7), redesig-
nating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7), and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘(5) with expanding global markets and in-
creasing imports into many countries, including the
United States, that food safety and quality, as well
as secure supply, have emerged as mutual concerns
of all countries;
‘‘(6) that research, teaching, and extension ac-
tivities, and appropriate institutional and policy de-
velopment therefore are prime factors in improving
agricultural production, food distribution, proc-
essing, storage, and marketing abroad (as well as in
the United States);’’;
(F) in paragraph (7) (as redesignated), by
striking ‘‘in the United States’’ and inserting ‘‘and
the broader economy of the United States’’; and
(G) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) that there is a need to preserve and pro-
tect the world’s natural resources for sustained pro-
ductivity and health and to take steps to mitigate
adverse aspects of climate change which confront ag-
riculture and other natural resource–based indus-
tries with new scientific, technological, and manage-
ment challenges; and
‘‘(9) that universities and their public and pri-
vate partners need a dependable source of Federal
funding not requiring State matching funds, as well
as Federal and State matched funding, and other fi-
nancing, 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 effort to advance agricultural development in
cooperating countries, to translate development into
economic growth and trade for the United States
and cooperating countries, and to prepare future
teachers, researchers, extension specialists, entre-
preneurs, managers, and decisionmakers for the
world economy.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—Sec-
tion 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 components must be brought together in a co-
ordinated program to increase world food and fiber pro-
duction, agricultural trade, and responsible management
of natural resources, including—
‘‘(1) continued efforts by the international agri-
cultural research centers and other international re-
search entities to provide a global network, including
United States universities, for international scientific
collaboration on crops, livestock, forests, fisheries,
farming resources, and food systems of worldwide
importance;
‘‘(2) contract research and the implementation
of collaborative research support programs and other
research collaboration led by United States land-
grant and other eligible 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) transformation of the benefits of global ag-
ricultural research and development into increased
benefits for United States agriculturally–related in-
dustries through establishment of development and
trade information and service centers, for rural as
well as urban communities, through extension, coop-
eratively with, and supportive of, existing public and
private trade and development related organizations;
‘‘(4) facilitation of universities and their public
and private partners’ participation in programs of
multilateral banks and agencies which receive United
States funds, by means which may include United
States designation of the use of these funds or
through additional complementary funds restricted
to the use of United States universities and their
public and private partners;
‘‘(5) expanding learning opportunities about
global agriculture for students, teachers, community
leaders, entrepreneurs, and the general public
through international internships 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 eligible univer-
sities to United States agriculturalists and their
partners from other countries for research, institu-
tion and policy development, extension, training, and
other programs for global agricultural development,
trade, and responsible management of natural re-
sources.’’.
(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 compo-
nent’’ and inserting ‘‘each of the program compo-
nents described in paragraphs (1) through (6) of
subsection (b)’’;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and their partners’’ after
‘‘for the universities’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(3) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and their partners’’ after
‘‘such universities’’;
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking
‘‘and’’ at the end;
(C) by striking the matter following sub-
paragraph (B); and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) multilateral banks and agencies re-
ceiving United States funds;
‘‘(D) development agencies of other coun-
tries; and
‘‘(E) United States Government foreign as-
sistance and economic cooperation programs;
and’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) generally engage the United States univer-
sity community more extensively in the agricultural
research, trade, and development initiatives under-
taken outside the United States, with the objectives
of strengthening its capacity to carry out research,
teaching, and extension activities for solving prob-
lems in food production, processing, marketing, and
consumption in agriculturally underdeveloped na-
tions, and transforming progress in global agricul-
tural research and development into economic
growth, trade, and trade benefits for United States
communities and industries and for the provident
use of natural resources; and
‘‘(5) ensure that all federally funded support to
universities and their public and private partners re-
lating to the goals of this title is periodically re-
viewed 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/outreach’’.
(e) 
DEFINITION
OF
ADMINISTRATOR.—Section
296(e) of the Foreign 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 UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296 of the Foreign Assist-
ance 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 cooper-
ative or contractual agreements with universities, which
may include university beneficiary groups, other education
institutions, United States Government and State agen-
cies, private voluntary organizations, nongovernmental or-
ganizations, firms operated for profit, nonprofit organiza-
tions, multinational banks, and, except when designated
otherwise, those incorporated 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’ in-
cludes the science and practice of activity related to food,
feed, and fiber production, processing, marketing, dis-
tribution, utilization, and trade, and also includes family
and consumer sciences, nutrition, food science and engi-
neering, agricultural economics and other social sciences,
forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, vet-
erinary medicine, and other environmental and natural re-
sources 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’ in-
cludes farmers, herders, and livestock producers, individ-
uals who fish and others employed in cultivating and har-
vesting food resources from salt and fresh waters, individ-
uals who cultivate trees and shrubs and harvest nontimber
forest products, as well as the processors, managers,
teachers, extension specialists, researchers, policymakers,
and others who are engaged in the food, feed, and fiber
system and its relationships to natural resources.’’.
SEC. 3. GENERAL AUTHORITY.
(a) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
ASSISTANCE.—Section
297(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2220b(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), to read as follows:
‘‘(1) 
to 
implement 
program 
components
through eligible United States universities as author-
ized by paragraphs (2) through (5) of this sub-
section;’’;
(2) in paragraph (3), to read as follows:
‘‘(3) to provide long-term program support for
United States university global agricultural and re-
lated environmental collaborative research and learn-
ing opportunities for students, teachers, extension
specialists, researchers, and the general public;’’;
and
(3) in paragraph (4)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before
‘‘universities’’;
(B) by inserting ‘‘agricultural’’ before ‘‘re-
search centers’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘and the institutions of ag-
riculturally developing nations’’ and inserting
‘‘multilateral banks, the institutions of agri-
culturally developing nations, and United States
and foreign nongovernmental organizations sup-
porting extension and other productivity-en-
hancing programs’’.
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(b) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(b)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘universities’’ and inserting
‘‘United States universities with their public
and private partners’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (C)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘, environment,’’ be-
fore ‘‘and related’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘farmers and farm
families’’ and inserting ‘‘agriculturalists’’;
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, including
resources of the private sector,’’ after ‘‘Federal or
State resources’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and the
United States Department of Agriculture’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘, the Department of Ag-
riculture, State agricultural agencies, the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of the Interior,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of
the United States Trade Representative, the Food
and Drug Administration, other appropriate Federal
agencies, and appropriate nongovernmental and
business organizations.’’.
(c) FURTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(c) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(c))
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), to read as follows:
‘‘(2) focus primarily on the needs of agricul-
tural producers, rural families, processors, traders,
consumers, and conservators of natural resources;’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (4), to read as follows:
‘‘(4) to be carried out within the developing
countries and transition countries comprising newly
emerging democracies and newly liberalized econo-
mies; and’’.
(d) SPECIAL PROGRAMS.—Section 297 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(d) In carrying out programs under this title, the
Administrator shall establish and carry out special pro-
grams involving eligible universities for Africa, Russia, the
independent states of the former Soviet Union (as defined
in section 3 of the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eur-
asian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of
1992 (22 U.S.C. 5801), ongoing programs for child sur-
vival, democratization, development of free enterprise, en-
vironmental and natural resource management, and other
related programs, which depend upon and are integrally
related to sound agriculture and rural development.’’.
SEC. 4. BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRICUL-
TURAL DEVELOPMENT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 298(a) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(a)) is
amended—
(1) in the first sentence—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘authorized by this
title’’ the following: ‘‘and to provide United
States Government followup to the World Food
Summit of November 1996’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘the universities’’ and in-
serting ‘‘eligible universities’’; and
(2) in the third sentence, by inserting at the
end before the period the following: ‘‘on a case-by-
case basis’’.
(b) GENERAL AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
BOARD.—Section 298(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(b)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) The Board’s general areas of responsibility shall
include—
‘‘(1) participating in the planning, development,
and implementation of, initiating recommendations
for, and monitoring, the activities described in sec-
tion 297 of this title; and
‘‘(2) providing advice and assistance to the
Inter-Agency Working Group on Food Security
(IWG) on carrying out commitments made in the
United States Country Paper for the November
1996 World Food Summit and on the Plan of Action
agreed to at the Summit.’’.
(c) DUTIES OF THE BOARD.—Section 298(c) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘in-
crease food production’’ and all that follows and
inserting the following: ‘‘improve agricultural
production, trade, and natural resource man-
agement in developing countries, and with pri-
vate organizations seeking to increase agricul-
‘‘(A) participating in the implementation of
the action plan through meetings, workshops,
and proper involvement; and
‘‘(B) serving as an outreach vehicle to all
nongovernmental sectors to achieve maximum
involvement in action plan development and im-
plementation;
‘‘(9) developing information exchanges and con-
sulting regularly with nongovernmental organiza-
tions, consumer groups, producers, agribusinesses
and associations, agricultural cooperatives and com-
modity groups, State departments of agriculture,
State agricultural research and extension agencies,
and academic institutions;
‘‘(10) investigating and resolving issues con-
cerning implementation of this title as requested by
universities; and
‘‘(11) advising the Administrator on any and all
issues as requested.’’.
(d) SUBORDINATE UNITS.—Section 298(d) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(d)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Research’’ and insert
‘‘Policy’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘administration’’ and in-
serting ‘‘design’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘section 297(a)(3) of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘section 297’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Joint Committee on
Country Programs’’ and inserting ‘‘Joint Oper-
ations Committee’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘which shall assist’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘which shall assist in
and advise on the mechanisms and processes
for implementation of activities described in
section 297.’’.
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION.
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Section 299(a) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220d(a)) is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a)(1)’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘sections 110(b)’’ and inserting
‘‘sections 110’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2)(A) In addition to amounts made available under
paragraph (1), there are authorized to be appropriated to
carry out this title $305,000,000 for each of the fiscal
years 2000 through 2006.
‘‘(B) Of the amount appropriated pursuant to the au-
thorization of appropriations under subparagraph (A) for
a fiscal year, $34,000,000 shall be made available to carry
out section 296(b)(2).’’.
(b) FUNDING RELATING TO UNIVERSITIES.—Section
299(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2220d(d)) is amended by striking ‘‘accept and expend’’
and inserting ‘‘solicit, accept, and expend’’.
SEC. 6. ANNUAL REPORT.
Section 300 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2220e) is amended by striking ‘‘April 1’’ and
inserting ‘‘September 1’’.
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