IIB
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4002
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 25, 2000
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
AN ACT
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise
and improve provisions relating to famine prevention and
freedom from hunger.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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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 sen-
tence of section 296(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘The Congress declares that, in order to achieve the mu-
tual goals among nations of ensuring food security, human
health, agricultural growth, trade expansion, and the wise
and sustainable use of natural resources, the United
States should mobilize the capacities of the United States
land-grant universities, other eligible universities, and
public and private partners of universities in the United
States and other countries, consistent with sections 103
and 103A of this Act, for: (1) global research on problems
affecting food, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; (2) im-
proved human capacity and institutional resource develop-
ment for the global application of agricultural and related
environmental sciences; (3) agricultural development and
trade research and extension services in the United States
and other countries to support the entry of rural indus-
tries into world markets; and (4) providing for the applica-
tion of agricultural sciences to solving food, health, nutri-
tion, rural income, and environmental problems, especially
such problems in low-income, food deficit countries.’’.
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(2) The second sentence of section 296(a) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is
amended—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘in this coun-
try’’ and inserting ‘‘with and through the private
sector in this country and to understanding proc-
esses of economic development’’;
(B) in paragraph (2), to read as follows:
‘‘(2) that land-grant and other universities in
the United States have demonstrated over many
years their ability to cooperate with international
agencies, educational and research institutions in
other countries, the private sector, and nongovern-
mental organizations worldwide, in expanding global
agricultural production, processing, business and
trade, to the benefit of the United States and other
countries;’’;
(C) in paragraph (3), to read as follows:
‘‘(3) that, in a world of growing populations
with rising expectations, increased food production
and improved distribution, storage, and marketing in
the developing countries is necessary not only to pre-
vent hunger and ensure human health and child sur-
vival, but to build the basis for economic growth and
trade, and the social security in which democracy
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and a market economy can thrive, and moreover,
that the greatest potential for increasing world food
supplies and incomes to purchase food are in the de-
veloping countries where the gap between food need
and food supply is the greatest and current incomes
are lowest;’’;
(D) in paragraph (4), to read as follows:
‘‘(4) that the engagement of United States uni-
versities in agricultural development in other coun-
tries strengthens the competitiveness of United
States agriculture and other industries by training
future foreign partners and by introducing global
perspectives into United States curriculum, research,
public information services, and other extension pro-
grams of the universities;’’;
(E) by striking paragraphs (5) and (7), redesig-
nating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7), and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘(5) with expanding global markets and in-
creasing imports into many countries, including the
United States, that food safety and quality, as well
as secure supply, have emerged as mutual concerns
of all countries;
‘‘(6) that research, teaching, and extension ac-
tivities, and appropriate institutional and policy de-
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velopment therefore are prime factors in improving
agricultural production, food distribution, proc-
essing, storage, and marketing abroad (as well as in
the United States);’’;
(F) in paragraph (7) (as redesignated), by
striking ‘‘in the United States’’ and inserting ‘‘and
the broader economy of the United States’’; and
(G) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) that there is a need to preserve and pro-
tect the world’s natural resources for sustained pro-
ductivity and health and to take steps to mitigate
adverse aspects of climate change which confront ag-
riculture and other natural resource-based industries
with new scientific, technological, and management
challenges; and
‘‘(9) that universities and public and private
partners of universities need a dependable source of
Federal funding not requiring State matching funds,
as well as Federal and State matched funding, and
other financing, in order to increase the impact of
their own investments and those of their State gov-
ernments and constituencies, in order to continue
and expand their effort to advance agricultural de-
velopment in cooperating countries, to translate de-
velopment into economic growth and trade for the
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United States and cooperating countries, and to pre-
pare future teachers, researchers, extension special-
ists, entrepreneurs, managers, and decisionmakers
for the world economy.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—Sec-
tion 296(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2220a(b)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) Accordingly, the Congress declares that, in order
to prevent famine and establish freedom from hunger, the
following components must be brought together in a co-
ordinated program to increase world food and fiber pro-
duction, agricultural trade, and responsible management
of natural resources, including—
‘‘(1) continued efforts by the international agri-
cultural research centers and other international re-
search entities to provide a global network, including
United States universities, for international scientific
collaboration on crops, livestock, forests, fisheries,
farming resources, and food systems of worldwide
importance;
‘‘(2) contract research and the implementation
of collaborative research support programs and other
research collaboration led by United States univer-
sities, and involving research systems in other coun-
tries focused on crops, livestock, forests, fisheries,
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farming resources, and food systems, with benefits
to the United States and partner countries;
‘‘(3) transformation of the benefits of global ag-
ricultural research and development into increased
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