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(4) create an enabling environment for agricul-
tural growth and investment, including through the 
promotion of secure and transparent property rights; 
(5) improve the nutritional status of women 
and children, with a focus on reducing child stunt-
ing, including through the promotion of highly nutri-
tious foods, diet diversification, and nutritional be-
haviors that improve maternal and child health; 
(6) align with and leverage broader United 
States investments in trade, economic growth, 
science and technology, maternal and child health, 
and water, sanitation, and hygiene; and 
(7) ensure the effective use of United States 
taxpayer dollars to further these objectives. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the 
Congress that the President, in providing assistance to im-
plement the Global Food Security Strategy, should— 
(1) coordinate, through a whole-of-government 
approach, the efforts of relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies to implement the Global Food 
Security Strategy; 
(2) utilize, to the extent possible, open and 
streamlined solicitations to allow for the participa-
tion of a wide range of implementing partners via 
the most appropriate contracting mechanism; and 
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(3) continue to strengthen existing partnerships 
between developing country institutions of agricul-
tural sciences with universities in the United States, 
with a focus on building the capacities of developing 
nation universities in agriculture. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AGRICULTURE.—The term ‘‘agriculture’’ 
means crops, livestock, fisheries, and forestries. 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri-
tion, and Forestry of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives; 
(E) the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(F) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives. 
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(3) FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LABS.— 
The term ‘‘Feed the Future Innovation Labs’’ 
means research partnerships led by United States 
universities that advance solutions to reduce global 
hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. 
(4) GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY STRATEGY.—The 
term ‘‘Global Food Security Strategy’’ means the 
strategy developed and implemented pursuant to sec-
tion 4(a). 
(5) FOOD
AND
NUTRITION
SECURITY.—The 
term ‘‘food and nutrition security’’ means access to, 
and availability, utilization, and stability of, suffi-
cient food to meet caloric and nutritional needs for 
an active and healthy life. 
(6) MALNUTRITION.—The term ‘‘malnutrition’’ 
means poor nutritional status caused by nutritional 
deficiency or excess. 
(7) RESILIENCE.—The term ‘‘resilience’’ means 
the ability of people, households, communities, coun-
tries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover 
from shocks and stresses to food security in a man-
ner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates 
inclusive growth. 
(8) RELEVANT
FEDERAL
DEPARTMENTS
AND 
AGENCIES.—The term ‘‘relevant Federal depart-
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ments and agencies’’ means the United States Agen-
cy for International Development, the Department of 
Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the De-
partment of State, the Department of the Treasury, 
the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation, the Peace Corps, 
the Office of the United States Trade Representa-
tive, the United States African Development Foun-
dation, the United States Geological Survey, and 
any other department or agency specified by the 
President for purposes of this section. 
(9) 
SMALL-SCALE
PRODUCER.—The 
term 
‘‘small-scale producer’’ means farmers, pastoralists, 
foresters, and fishers that have a low-asset base and 
limited resources, including land, capital, skills and 
labor, and, in the case of farmers, typically farm on 
fewer than 5 hectares of land. 
SEC. 4. COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY STRAT-
EGY. 
(a) STRATEGY.—The President shall coordinate the 
development and implementation of a United States 
whole-of-government strategy to accomplish the policy ob-
jectives set forth in section 2(a), which shall— 
(1) support and be aligned with country-owned 
agriculture, nutrition, and food security policy and 
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investment plans developed with input from relevant 
governmental and nongovernmental sectors within 
partner countries and regional bodies, including rep-
resentatives of the private sector, agricultural pro-
ducers, including women and small-scale producers, 
international and local civil society organizations, 
faith-based organizations, research institutions, and 
farmers as reasonable and appropriate; 
(2) support inclusive agricultural value chain 
development, with small-scale producers, especially 
women, gaining greater access to the inputs, skills, 
networking, bargaining power, financing, and mar-
ket linkages needed to sustain their long-term eco-
nomic prosperity; 
(3) seek to improve the nutritional status of 
women and children, particularly during the critical 
first 1,000-day window until a child reaches 2 years 
of age, with a focus on reducing child stunting; 
(4) seek to ensure the long-term success of pro-
grams by building the capacity of local organizations 
and institutions; 
(5) integrate resilience strategies into food secu-
rity programs, such that chronically vulnerable pop-
ulations are better able to build safety nets, secure 
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