•HRES 1349 IH 
(A) Food for Peace is an essential compo-
nent of global food security efforts; 
(B) Food for Peace is an expression of the 
generosity and goodwill of the people of the 
United States toward the world’s most vulner-
able populations; 
(C) food insecurity stems from an array of 
factors, including military conflict, civil strife, 
economic instability, underdeveloped food pro-
duction and market inclusion, corruption, and 
climate extremes; 
(D) Food for Peace helps to alleviate hu-
manitarian needs stemming from conflict and 
natural disasters, helps to prevent the spread of 
disease and malnutrition among pregnant 
women and children under 5 years old, and can 
help to counteract cycles of violence; and 
(E) Food for Peace contributes to the 
spread and strengthening of United States lead-
ership worldwide through the investment of 
United States foreign aid and humanitarian as-
sistance and is therefore a key component of 
United States foreign policy; 
(2) commends the Food for Peace program for 
reaching 53,000,000 people with emergency food as-
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sistance in 21 countries and nearly 3,000,000 people 
with resilience-building development assistance in 
fiscal year 2022; 
(3) commends Food for Peace for supporting 
vulnerable communities around the world in coping 
with crises as they make their journeys to self-reli-
ance; 
(4) recognizes that— 
(A) United States foreign assistance helps 
create markets for United States products by 
reducing poverty, increasing production, and 
creating broadly shared wealth in developing 
countries; 
(B) humanitarian assistance helps coun-
tries and communities recover from serious dis-
asters, crises, and emergencies, and puts them 
back on the road to prosperity; and 
(C) Food for Peace nonemergency pro-
grams are a critical part of this effort, as stud-
ies show that for every $1 invested in strength-
ening communities’ resilience saves $7 in more 
expensive humanitarian aid; and 
(5) calls for continued prioritization of funding 
for Food for Peace programs— 
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(A) to continue the mission of fighting 
global food insecurity; 
(B) to help to reduce the number of moth-
ers who lack the adequate prenatal nutrition 
and the healthy foods to care for their children 
once they are born; 
(C) to help to reduce the number of in-
fants and children facing the lifelong effects of 
malnutrition; 
(D) to reduce the number of infants and 
children dying from malnutrition-related causes 
around the globe; 
(E) to continue to support nonemergency 
resilience-building efforts to address the root 
causes of hunger and reduce the need for future 
emergency assistance; 
(F) to maximize the economic and intellec-
tual potential of local communities and global 
markets; 
(G) to support United States values; 
(H) to provide for the basic human needs 
of food and nutrition and for critical develop-
ment activities; 
(I) to affirm the continued commitment of 
the United States people and their Government 
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to helping some of the most vulnerable popu-
lations in the world at their times of greatest 
need; 
(J) to promote democratic values world-
wide; and 
(K) to protect all food aid modalities and 
encourage alignment of food assistance with 
other forms of humanitarian and development 
aid to best help those in need. 
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