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child wasting (from 47,000,000 to 52,000,000) by the 
end of 2020; 
Whereas the United States has been a global leader in ad-
dressing food insecurity on a bipartisan basis and across 
Administrations, particularly in response to the global 
food price crisis in 2007–2008 and subsequent launch of 
the whole-of-government, United States Agency for Inter-
national Development-led, Feed the Future program in 
2010; 
Whereas the late Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana was in-
strumental in advancing United States efforts to reduce 
global poverty through smart investments in agriculture 
and food security, including through his stewardship of 
the Global Food Security Acts of 2008 and 2009, support 
for the launch of the Feed the Future program in 2010, 
and continued advocacy to formally authorize the Feed 
the Future program through enactment of the Global 
Food Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–195) and 
the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–266); 
Whereas the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 
114–195), as enacted in 2016 and reauthorized in 2018, 
required the development and implementation of a com-
prehensive United States Government Global Food Secu-
rity Strategy and codified the Feed the Future frame-
work, strengthening its accountability and transparency 
mechanisms, deepening interagency engagement, and en-
gaging a broad coalition of stakeholders, including faith- 
based and civil society organizations, universities and re-
search institutions, the United States private sector, and 
United States farm and commodity organizations; 
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Whereas Feed the Future investments have helped transform 
countries’ food systems and improve their own food secu-
rity and nutrition, with investments currently focused in 
twelve target countries and 35 aligned countries and re-
gions in Asia, Central America, and east, southern, and 
west Africa; 
Whereas according to its most recent progress report, Feed 
the Future has helped more than 23,400,000 people lift 
themselves out of poverty, prevented 3,400,000 children 
from being stunted, and ensured that 5,200,000 families 
no longer suffer from hunger in areas where the program 
operates; 
Whereas Feed the Future is making significant progress to-
wards building local capacity and resilience by promoting 
inclusive economic growth, strengthening monitoring and 
evaluation, implementing sustainable agricultural prac-
tices, risk management, improving forecasting and adap-
tation, and building the agricultural capacity of rural 
communities; 
Whereas Feed the Future also is advancing women’s eco-
nomic empowerment by providing targeted technical as-
sistance to women working in agricultural systems and 
equipping women with adequate tools, training, and tech-
nology for small-scale agriculture; 
Whereas Feed the Future investments benefit communities in 
the United States as well, including by increasing United 
States trade and agricultural exports to Feed the Future 
countries by more than $1,400,000,000 since inception; 
and 
Whereas Feed the Future investments in international agri-
cultural research and development through partnerships 
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with United States universities and land-grant institu-
tions, international research systems, such as the Consor-
tium of International Agricultural Research Centers, and 
other organizations will help the United States agricul-
tural sector prepare for, adapt to, and remain resilient 
amid evolving threats; Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports continued investment in United 
States global food security programs, and particu-
larly through the Feed the Future program’s com-
prehensive, multi-sectoral, transparent, data and re-
sults-driven approach toward reducing hunger, pov-
erty, and malnutrition in low- and middle-income 
countries; 
(2) recognizes the need to deepen and extend 
these efforts in order to achieve the global goal of 
ending hunger by 2030, particularly in the face of 
unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID–19 
pandemic, political and social instability, high levels 
of human displacement, gender inequities, extreme 
natural shocks, and the increasing prevalence of 
invasive agricultural pests, such as desert locusts 
and the Fall Army Worm; 
(3) supports United States Government efforts 
to focus on improving nutrition and health, building 
resilience, integrating water, sanitation, and hygiene, 
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and empowering women, youth, and smallholder 
farmers; 
(4) calls on the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development to— 
(A) annually review the Feed the Future 
program and, as appropriate, expand the list of 
target countries, including those in fragile con-
texts; 
(B) include information on all countries 
benefitting from direct Feed the Future invest-
ments, to include both focus and aligned coun-
tries, in annual reporting in order to further en-
hance the program’s commitment to trans-
parency and impact; 
(C) develop a robust multi-sectoral learn-
ing agenda for maternal and child malnutrition 
and its causes, with a focus on the 1,000 day 
window until a child’s second birthday; 
(D) strongly amplify the critical role of 
women and smallholder farmers in enhancing 
food security and catalyzing agriculture-led eco-
nomic growth; and 
(E) advance the New Partnerships Initia-
tive by promoting, building the capacity of, and 
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entering into partnerships with locally-led orga-
nizations under the Feed the Future program; 
(5) calls on the relevant Federal agencies iden-
tified under the United States Government Global 
Food Security Strategy, including the United States 
Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, and 
Treasury, and the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, the International Development Finance 
Corporation, the Peace Corps, the Office of the 
United States Trade Representative, the U.S. Africa 
Development Foundation, and the U.S. Geological 
Survey, to— 
(A) continue to advance global food secu-
rity as a United States foreign assistance pri-
ority, enhance inter-agency coordination under 
the Global Food Security Strategy, and align 
relevant programs with the Feed the Future 
program’s needs-based, multi-sectoral approach; 
and 
(B) contribute to the development of an 
updated Global Food Security Strategy and a 
Global Food Security Research Strategy in 
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2021 to guide and inform Feed the Future ac-
tivities between 2022 and 2026. 
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