IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1349 
Recognizing the continued success of the Food for Peace Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2024 
Mr. COSTA (for himself, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mrs. CHERFILUS- 
MCCORMICK, Mr. JACKSON
of Illinois, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Ms. 
KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. PINGREE, 
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. MCCAUL, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. 
BROWN, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. 
BERA, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. 
DAVIS of North Carolina, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. LATURNER, Ms. DAVIDS of 
Kansas, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. 
AMO, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. FITZPATRICK) submitted the following res-
olution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 
addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the continued success of the Food for Peace 
Act. 
Whereas, on July 10, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower 
signed the Agricultural Trade Development and Assist-
ance Act, which created the Office of Food for Peace; 
Whereas 2,400,000,000 people globally, disproportionately 
more women and people living in rural areas, did not 
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have access to enough nutritious food year-round in 
2022; 
Whereas an estimated 783,000,000 people suffered from hun-
ger in 2022, 122,000,000 more than in 2019; 
Whereas, in 2022, 149,000,000 children under the age of 5 
were estimated to be stunted, i.e., too short for their age, 
and 45,000,000 estimated to be wasted, i.e., too thin for 
their height; 
Whereas the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates notes 
that despite significant progress in reducing stunting in 
children globally, an estimated 128,500,000 children will 
be stunted in 2030 if current trends continue; 
Whereas, according to UNICEF, 1 in 4 children, or 
181,000,000 children under the age of 5, lives in severe 
child food poverty, meaning that they eat at most 2 of 
8 food groups needed for healthy development; 
Whereas undernutrition contributes to approximately 45 per-
cent of deaths of children under 5 years old worldwide; 
Whereas significant numbers of vulnerable and chronically 
food-insecure people reside in conflict-affected areas, in-
cluding Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, 
Somalia, and Haiti, and people in these areas were 
among the largest recipients of Food for Peace aid in 
2022; 
Whereas 9 years of conflict has devastated Yemen, resulting 
in catastrophic losses, displacement of millions of people, 
and one of the world’s largest food insecurity crises with 
half of all children under the age of 5 stunted or chron-
ically malnourished; 
Whereas the United Nations estimates that 18,200,000 Yem-
enis, the majority of the country’s population and 
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10,000,000 of them children, depend on and are in imme-
diate need of humanitarian assistance; 
Whereas nearly 5,000,000 children were forcibly displaced in 
Sudan by the end of 2023, representing the largest inter-
nal displacement crisis for children in the world; 
Whereas over half of the population in Sudan, including 3 in 
4 children, are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and 
8,500,000 are facing emergency levels of food insecurity, 
with 14 areas at risk of famine; 
Whereas almost 32,000,000 people in Nigeria are projected 
to face acute food insecurity in the lean season this year; 
Whereas global humanitarian funding shortfalls risk in-
creased hunger and malnutrition in these and other 
emergency settings; 
Whereas longstanding cooperation between Food for Peace 
and the United Nations World Food Programme has led 
to millions of people receiving critical food aid around the 
world; 
Whereas all food aid modalities, including United States com-
modities and assistance to help communities be self-suffi-
cient, are critical to Food for Peace’s integrity and lon-
gevity; and 
Whereas the assistance provided by Food for Peace programs 
helps to address the root causes of mass migration of 
populations from poverty-stricken and food-insecure re-
gions, including women and children who are dispropor-
tionately affected by food shortages and political insta-
bility: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms that— 
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