benefits for United States agriculturally related in-
dustries through establishment of development and
trade information and service centers, for rural as
well as urban communities, through extension, coop-
eratively with, and supportive of, existing public and
private trade and development related organizations;
‘‘(4) facilitation of participation by universities
and public and private partners of universities in
programs of multilateral banks and agencies which
receive United States funds by means which may in-
clude additional complementary funds restricted to
the use of United States universities and public and
private partners of universities;
‘‘(5) expanding learning opportunities about
global agriculture for students, teachers, community
leaders,
entrepreneurs,
and
the
general
public
through international internships and exchanges,
graduate assistantships, faculty positions, and other
means of education and extension through long-term
recurring Federal funds matched by State funds;
and
‘‘(6) competitive grants through universities to
United States agriculturalists and public and private
partners of universities from other countries for re-
search, institution and policy development, exten-
sion, training, and other programs for global agricul-
tural development, trade, and responsible manage-
ment of natural resources.’’.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—Section 296(c) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(c))
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘each compo-
nent’’ and inserting ‘‘each of the program compo-
nents described in paragraphs (1) through (6) of
subsection (b)’’;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private
partners of universities’’ after ‘‘for the univer-
sities’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(3) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and public and private
partners of universities’’ after ‘‘such univer-
sities’’;
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘,
and’’ and inserting a semicolon;
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the
comma at the end and inserting a semicolon;
(D) by striking the matter following sub-
paragraph (B); and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) multilateral banks and agencies re-
ceiving United States funds;
‘‘(D) development agencies of other coun-
tries; and
‘‘(E) United States Government foreign as-
sistance and economic cooperation programs;
and’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) generally engage the United States univer-
sity community more extensively in the agricultural
research, trade, and development initiatives under-
taken outside the United States, with the objectives
of strengthening its capacity to carry out research,
teaching, and extension activities for solving prob-
lems in food production, processing, marketing, and
consumption in agriculturally developing nations,
and for transforming progress in global agricultural
research and development into economic growth,
trade, and trade benefits for United States commu-
nities and industries, and for the provident use of
natural resources; and
‘‘(5) ensure that all federally funded support to
universities and public and private partners of uni-
versities relating to the goals of this title is periodi-
cally reviewed for its performance.’’.
(d) DEFINITION OF UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296(d)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2220a(d)) is amended—
(1) by inserting after ‘‘sea-grant colleges;’’ the
following: ‘‘Native American land-grant colleges as
authorized under the Equity in Educational Land-
Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 note);’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘extension’’
and inserting ‘‘extension (including outreach)’’.
(e)
DEFINITION
OF
ADMINISTRATOR.—Section
296(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2220a(e)) is amended by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before
‘‘Agency’’.
(f) DEFINITION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS
OF UNIVERSITIES.—Section 296 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘(f) As used in this title, the term ‘public and private
partners of universities’ includes entities that have cooper-
ative or contractual agreements with universities, which
may include university beneficiary groups, other education
institutions, United States Government and State agen-
cies, private voluntary organizations, nongovernmental or-
ganizations, firms operated for profit, nonprofit organiza-
tions, multinational banks, and, as designated by the Ad-
ministrator, any organization, institution, or agency incor-
porated in other countries.’’.
(g) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE.—Section 296 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(g) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculture’ in-
cludes the science and practice of activity related to food,
feed, and fiber production, processing, marketing, dis-
tribution, utilization, and trade, and also includes family
and consumer sciences, nutrition, food science and engi-
neering, agricultural economics and other social sciences,
forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, vet-
erinary medicine, and other environmental and natural re-
sources sciences.’’.
(h) DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURISTS.—Section 296
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(h) As used in this title, the term ‘agriculturists’ in-
cludes farmers, herders, and livestock producers, individ-
uals who fish and others employed in cultivating and har-
vesting food resources from salt and fresh waters, individ-
uals who cultivate trees and shrubs and harvest nontimber
forest products, as well as the processors, managers,
teachers, extension specialists, researchers, policymakers,
and others who are engaged in the food, feed, and fiber
system and its relationships to natural resources.’’.
SEC. 3. GENERAL AUTHORITY.
(a)
AUTHORIZATION
OF
ASSISTANCE.—Section
297(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2220b(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), to read as follows:
‘‘(1)
to
implement
program
components
through United States universities as authorized by
paragraphs (2) through (5) of this subsection;’’;
(2) in paragraph (3), to read as follows:
‘‘(3) to provide long-term program support for
United States university global agricultural and re-
lated environmental collaborative research and learn-
ing opportunities for students, teachers, extension
specialists, researchers, and the general public;’’;
and
(3) in paragraph (4)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘United States’’ before
‘‘universities’’;
(B) by inserting ‘‘agricultural’’ before ‘‘re-
search centers’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘and the institutions of ag-
riculturally developing nations’’ and inserting
‘‘multilateral banks, the institutions of agri-
culturally developing nations, and United States
and foreign nongovernmental organizations sup-
porting extension and other productivity-en-
hancing programs’’.
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(b) of the Foreign
Assistance
Act
of
1961
(22
U.S.C.
2220b(b))
is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘universities’’ and inserting
‘‘United States universities with public and pri-
vate partners of universities’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (C)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘, environment,’’ be-
fore ‘‘and related’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘farmers and farm
families’’ and inserting ‘‘agriculturalists’’;
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, including
resources of the private sector,’’ after ‘‘Federal or
State resources’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and the
United States Department of Agriculture’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘, the Department of Ag-
riculture, State agricultural agencies, the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of the Interior,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of
the United States Trade Representative, the Food
and Drug Administration, other appropriate Federal
agencies,
and
appropriate
nongovernmental
and
business organizations.’’.
(c) FURTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Section 297(c) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b(c))
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), to read as follows:
‘‘(2) focus primarily on the needs of agricul-
tural producers, rural families, processors, traders,
consumers, and conservators of natural resources;’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (4), to read as follows:
‘‘(4) be carried out within the developing coun-
tries
and
transition
countries
comprising
newly
emerging democracies and newly liberalized econo-
mies; and’’.
(d) SPECIAL PROGRAMS.—Section 297 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(d) The Administrator shall establish and carry out
special programs under this title as part of ongoing pro-
grams for child survival, democratization, development of
free enterprise, environmental and natural resource man-
agement, and other related programs.’’.
SEC. 4. BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRICUL-
TURAL DEVELOPMENT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 298(a) of the Foreign
Assistance
Act
of
1961
(22
U.S.C.
2220c(a))
is
amended—
(1) in the first sentence, by inserting after ‘‘au-
thorized by this title’’ the following: ‘‘and to provide
United States Government followup to the World
Food Summit of November 1996’’; and
(2) in the third sentence, by inserting at the
end before the period the following: ‘‘on a case-by-
case basis’’.
(b) GENERAL AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
BOARD.—Section 298(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(b)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) The Board’s general areas of responsibility shall
include—
‘‘(1) participating in the planning, development,
and implementation of, initiating recommendations
for, and monitoring, the activities described in sec-
tion 297 of this title; and
‘‘(2) providing advice and assistance to the
Inter-Agency
Working
Group
on
Food
Security
(IWG) on carrying out commitments made in the
United States Country Paper for the November
1996 World Food Summit and on the Plan of Action
agreed to at the Summit.’’.
(c) DUTIES OF THE BOARD.—Section 298(c) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(c)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘in-
crease food production’’ and all that follows and
inserting the following: ‘‘improve agricultural
production, trade, and natural resource man-
agement in developing countries, and with pri-
vate organizations seeking to increase agricul-
tural production and trade, natural resources
management, and household food security in de-
veloping and transition countries;’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting be-
fore ‘‘sciences’’ the following: ‘‘, environmental,
and related social’’;
(2) in paragraph (4), after ‘‘Administrator and
universities’’ insert ‘‘and their partners’’;
(3) in paragraph (5), after ‘‘universities’’ insert
‘‘and public and private partners of universities’’;
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(5) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘in the devel-
oping nations.’’ and inserting ‘‘and natural resource
issues in the developing nations, assuring efficiency
in use of Federal resources, including in accordance
with the Governmental Performance and Results Act
of 1993 (Public Law 103–62; 107 Stat. 285), and
the amendments made by that Act;’’; and
(6) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) providing advice to the United States Gov-
ernment on the development of a long-term action
plan in support of the commitments made in the
United States Country Paper and at the 1996 World
Food Summit, including—
‘‘(A) participating in the implementation of
the action plan through meetings, workshops,
and proper involvement; and
‘‘(B) serving as an outreach vehicle to all
nongovernmental sectors to achieve maximum
involvement in action plan development and im-
plementation;
‘‘(9) developing information exchanges and con-
sulting regularly with nongovernmental organiza-
tions, consumer groups, producers, agribusinesses
and associations, agricultural cooperatives and com-
modity groups, State departments of agriculture,
State agricultural research and extension agencies,
and academic institutions;
‘‘(10) investigating and resolving issues con-
cerning implementation of this title as requested by
universities; and
‘‘(11) advising the Administrator on any and all
issues as requested.’’.
(d) SUBORDINATE UNITS.—Section 298(d) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(d)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Research’’ and insert
‘‘Policy’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘administration’’ and in-
serting ‘‘design’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘section 297(a)(3) of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘section 297’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A)
by
striking
‘‘Joint
Committee
on
Country Programs’’ and inserting ‘‘Joint Oper-
ations Committee’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘which shall assist’’ and all
that follows and inserting ‘‘which shall assist in
and advise on the mechanisms and processes
for implementation of activities described in
section 297.’’.
SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORT.
Section 300 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2220e) is amended by striking ‘‘April 1’’ and
inserting ‘‘September 1’’.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Famine Prevention and
Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
(a) DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—(1) The first sentence
of section 296(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘The Con-
gress declares that, in order to achieve the mutual goals
among nations of ensuring food security, human health, ag-
ricultural growth, trade expansion, and the wise and sus-