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Union Calendar No. 165 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2844 
[Report No. 110–257, Part I] 
To promote United States emergency and non-emergency food and other 
assistance programs, to promote United States agricultural export pro-
grams, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2007 
Mr. LANTOS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Agri-
culture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
JULY 23, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. SMITH of New Jersey and Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas 
JULY 23, 2007 
Reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 25, 2007] 
A BILL 
To promote United States emergency and non-emergency 
food and other assistance programs, to promote United 
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States agricultural export programs, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Food Security and Agricultural Development Act of 
2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—UNITED STATES EMERGENCY AND NON-EMERGENCY FOOD 
AND OTHER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 
Sec. 101. United States policy. 
Sec. 102. General authority. 
Sec. 103. Provision of agricultural commodities. 
Sec. 104. Generation and use of currencies by private voluntary organizations 
and cooperatives. 
Sec. 105. Levels of assistance. 
Sec. 106. Food Aid Consultative Group. 
Sec. 107. Administration. 
Sec. 108. Assistance for stockpiling and rapid transportation, delivery, and dis-
tribution of shelf-stable prepackaged foods. 
Sec. 109. Administrative provisions. 
Sec. 110. Expiration date. 
Sec. 111. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 112. Coordination and integration of foreign assistance programs. 
Sec. 113. Micronutrient fortification programs. 
Sec. 114. John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program. 
Subtitle B—Related Statutes and Other Provisions 
Sec. 121. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust. 
Sec. 122. McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition 
Program. 
Sec. 123. International disaster assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961. 
Sec. 124. Report on efforts to improve procurement planning. 
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TITLE II—UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL EXPORT PROGRAMS 
Sec. 201. Export credit guarantee program. 
Sec. 202. Market access program. 
Sec. 203. Export enhancement program. 
Sec. 204. Assistance to address sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade. 
Sec. 205. Foreign market development cooperator program. 
Sec. 206. Emerging markets and facility guarantee loan program. 
Sec. 207. Food for Progress Act of 1985. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Technical assistance for specialty crops. 
Sec. 302. Support for sanitary and phytosanitary priorities of the United States 
within certain international organizations. 
Sec. 303. Technical assistance for the resolution of trade disputes. 
Sec. 304. Sense of Congress concerning the Global Crop Diversity Trust. 
Sec. 305. Technical and conforming amendments. 
Sec. 306. Rule of construction. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The United Nations Food and Agricultural 
Organization reports, that in 2006, an estimated 
850,000,000 people in the world, with 824,000,000 in 
developing countries, were chronically hungry. 
(2) The largest concentrations of the chronically 
hungry—an estimated 298,000,000 individuals—are 
in South Asia, with most of those individuals con-
centrated in India, where there are an estimated 
212,000,000 undernourished individuals, and in sub- 
Saharan Africa, where there are an estimated 
206,000,000 hungry people. 
(3) The number of food and humanitarian emer-
gencies has doubled from an average of about 15 per 
year in the 1980s to more than 30 per year since 
2000, due in large part to increasing conflicts, pov-
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erty, and natural disasters around the world. Some 
emergencies are exacerbated by multiple shocks, such 
as civil wars, recurring droughts, and endemic dis-
ease, adding to their complexity and protracting the 
crises for many years. 
(4) The United Nations reports that progress is 
being made toward reaching the Millennium Develop-
ment Goal of reducing the proportion of hungry peo-
ple in the world by half by 2015. In 1990, the propor-
tion of people in the developing countries living with 
insufficient food was estimated to be 20 percent. By 
2003, that percentage declined to 17 percent. How-
ever, from 1996 to 2006, the absolute number of hun-
gry people increased from 790,000,000 to 850,000,000. 
(5) The number of hungry people in the most se-
riously affected regions of the world, namely South 
Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, is increasing. In sub- 
Saharan Africa, in 1990, there were an estimated 
169,000,000 chronically-hungry people; in 2003, the 
number of chronically-hungry people increased to 
206,000,000. 
(6) The major United States Government re-
sponse to reducing hunger in developing countries is 
to provide United States agricultural commodities as 
food assistance. In fiscal year 2006, the United States 
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provided 3,000,000 metric tons of food valued at more 
than $2,000,000,000 to meet emergency food needs 
and to support development projects in developing 
countries. 
(7) In 2006, the United States provided food as-
sistance to 65 countries, more than half of which were 
in 
sub-Saharan 
Africa. 
Approximately 
$1,200,000,000, or 60 percent of such assistance, was 
provided as emergency food assistance. The United 
States Agency for International Development esti-
mates that 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 people benefit 
from United States food assistance programs annu-
ally. 
(8)(A) Food assistance contributed by the United 
States 
Government 
has 
totaled 
more 
than 
$73,000,000,000 since 1946. Over the last decade, the 
United States has been the single largest donor of 
international food assistance, with a large proportion 
of the assistance provided through the United Nations 
World Food Program and most of that assistance is 
for emergencies. 
(B) The United States contributed more than 
52,000,000 tons of food assistance between 1996 and 
2005, more than half of the nearly 100,000,000 tons 
of food assistance delivered worldwide in this period. 
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