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(2) identify any substantial changes made in 
the Global Food Security Strategy during the pre-
ceding calendar year; 
(3) describe the progress made in implementing 
the Global Food Security Strategy; 
(4) identify the indicators used to establish 
benchmarks and measure results over time, as well 
as the mechanisms for reporting such results in an 
open and transparent manner; 
(5) describe related strategies and benchmarks 
for graduating target countries and communities 
from assistance provided under the Global Food Se-
curity Strategy over time, including by building re-
silience, reducing risk, and enhancing the sustain-
ability of outcomes from United States investments 
in agriculture and nutrition security; 
(6) contain a transparent, open, and detailed 
accounting of expenditures by relevant Federal de-
partments and agencies to implement the Global 
Food Security Strategy, including, for each Federal 
department and agency, the statutory source of ex-
penditures, amounts expended, implementing part-
ners, targeted beneficiaries, and activities supported; 
(7) describe how the Global Food Security 
Strategy leverages other United States food security 
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and development assistance programs on the con-
tinuum from emergency food aid through sustain-
able, agriculture-led economic growth; 
(8) describe the contributions of the Global 
Food Security Strategy to, and assess the impact of, 
broader international food and nutrition security as-
sistance programs, including progress in the pro-
motion of land tenure rights, creating economic op-
portunities for women and small-scale producers, 
and stimulating agriculture-led economic growth in 
target countries and communities; 
(9) assess efforts to coordinate United States 
international food security and nutrition programs, 
activities, and initiatives with key stakeholders; 
(10) identify any United States legal or regu-
latory impediments that could obstruct the effective 
implementation of the programming referred to in 
paragraphs (7) and (8); 
(11) assess United States Government-facili-
tated private investment in related sectors and the 
impact of private sector investment in target coun-
tries and communities; 
(12) contain a clear gender analysis of pro-
gramming, to inform project-level activities, that in-
cludes established disaggregated gender indicators to 
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better analyze outcomes for food productivity, in-
come growth, control of assets, equity in access to 
inputs, jobs and markets, and nutrition; and 
(13) incorporate a plan for regularly reviewing 
and updating strategies, partnerships, and programs 
and sharing lessons learned with a wide range of 
stakeholders, including key stakeholders, in an open, 
transparent manner. 
(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—The 
information referred to in subsection (b) shall be made 
available on the public website of the United States Agen-
cy for International Development in an open, machine 
readable format, in a timely manner. 
SEC. 7. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION REGARDING EFFECT OF 
GLOBAL 
FOOD 
SECURITY 
STRATEGY 
ON 
FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY AND EMER-
GENCY AND NONEMERGENCY FOOD ASSIST-
ANCE PROGRAMS. 
(a) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the Glob-
al Food Security Strategy or this Act shall be construed 
to supersede or otherwise affect the authority of the rel-
evant Federal departments and agencies to carry out the 
programs specified in subsection (b) in the manner pro-
vided in, and subject to the terms and conditions of, those 
programs. 
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(b) COVERED PROGRAMS.—The programs referred to 
in subsection (a) are the following: 
(1) The Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et 
seq.). 
(2) The Food for Progress Act of 1985 (7 
U.S.C. 1736o). 
(3) Section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 
1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431(b)). 
(4) Section 3206 of the Food, Conservation, 
and Energy Act of 2008 (Local and Regional Food 
Aid Procurement Program; 7 U.S.C. 1726c). 
(5) The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1736f–1). 
(6) Section 3107 of the Farm Security and 
Rural Investment Act of 2002 (McGovern-Dole 
International Food for Education and Child Nutri-
tion Program; 7 U.S.C. 1736o–1). 
(7) Any other food and nutrition security and 
emergency 
and 
nonemergency 
food 
assistance 
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programs administered by the Department of Agri-
culture. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 12, 2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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