IA
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 par-
ents 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 lit-
tle more than survive;
Whereas world population will climb past six billion by the
year 2000, placing ever more intense demands on our ag-
ricultural production and environment;
Whereas this growth in global population will require innova-
tive scientific, economic, and political measures to ad-
dress 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 Organiza-
tion of the United Nations at the first United Nations
Conference on Food and Agriculture held at the Home-
stead in Hot Springs, Virginia, May 18–June 3, 1943;
Whereas, through advances in agricultural technology, the
nations of the world—including the developing coun-
tries—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 De-
cember 1992, many of the goals of the Hot Springs Con-
ference were reaffirmed and the United States and one
hundred and fifty-eight other countries committed them-
selves to ending hunger and malnutrition, both domesti-
cally and through a Global Plan of Action for Nutrition;
and
Whereas the United States has agreed to adopt its own Na-
tional Plan of Action for Nutrition by the end of 1994;
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That to call upon the President of the United States to
issue a proclamation honoring the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations on the fiftieth anni-
versary of its beginnings at Hot Springs, Virginia. In issu-
ing this proclamation, the Congress authorizes and re-
quests the President to reaffirm the commitment of the
American people to end hunger and malnutrition, both at
home and abroad, and to foster the growth of agriculture
in every quarter of the globe so that one day mankind
may be truly free from want of food.