Famine Prevention and Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000
PL 106-373 (H.R.4002), enacted 10/27/2000

PUBLIC LAW 106-373—OCT. 27, 2000 
114 STAT. 1427 
Public Law 106-373 
106th Congress 
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 Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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 Congress declares that, in 
order to achieve the mutual 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 fish-
eries; (2) improved human capacity and institutional resource 
development for the global application of agricultural and related 
environmental sciences; (3) agricultural development £ind trade 
research and extension services in the United States and other 
countries to support the entry of rural industries into world mar-
kets; and (4) providing for the application of agricultural sciences 
to solving food, health, nutrition, rural income, and environmental 
problems, especially such problems in low-income, food deficit coun-
tries.". 
(2) The second sentence of section 296(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220a(a)) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (7) as subpara-
graphs (A) through (G), respectively; 
(B) in subparagraph (A) (as redesignated), by striking "in 
this country" and inserting "with and through the private sector 
in this country and to understanding processes of economic 
development"; 
(C) in subparagraph (B) (as redesignated), to read as fol-
lows: 
"(B) 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 
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institutions in other countries, the private sector, and non-
governmental organizations worldwide, in expanding global 
agricultural production, processing, business and trade, to the 
benefit of aid recipient countries and of the United States;"; 
(D) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated), to read as fol-
lows: 
"(C) that, in a world of growing populations with rising 
expectations, increased food production and improved distribu-
tion, storage, and marketing in the developing countries is 
necessary not only to prevent hunger and ensure human health 
and child survival, but to build the basis for economic growth 
and trade, and the social security in which democracy and 
a market economy can thrive, and moreover, that the greatest 
potential for increasing world food supplies and incomes to 
purchase food is in the developing countries where the gap 
between food need and food supply is the greatest and current 
incomes are lowest;"; 
(E) by striking subparagraphs (E) and (G) (as redesignated); 
(F) by striking "and" at the end of subparagraph (F) (as 
redesignated); 
(G) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph 
(G); and 
(H) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following: 
"(E) that, with expanding global markets and increasing 
imports into many countries, including the United States, food 
safety and quality, as well as secure supply, have emerged 
as mutual concerns of all countries; 
"(F) that research, teaching, and extension activities, and 
appropriate institutional and policy development therefore are 
prime factors in improving agricultural production, food dis-
tribution, processing, storage, and marketing abroad (as well 
as in the United States);"; 
(I) in subparagraph (G) (as redesignated), by striking "in 
the United States" and inserting "and the broader economy 
of the United States"; and 
(J) by adding at the end the following: 
"(H) that there is a need to responsibly manage the world's 
agricultural and natural resources for sustained productivity, 
health and resilience to climate variability; and 
"(I) that universities and public and private partners of 
universities need a dependable source of funding in order to 
increase the impact of their own investments and those of 
their State governments and constituencies, in order to continue 
and expand their efforts to advance agricultural development 
in cooperating countries, to translate development into economic 
growth and trade for the United States and cooperating coun-
tries, and to prepare future teachers, researchers, extension 
specialists, entrepreneurs, managers, and decisionmakers for 
the world economy.". 
(b) ADDITIONAL DECLARATIONS OF POLICY.—Section 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 compo-
nents must be brought together in a coordinated program to increase 
world food and fiber production, agricultural trade, and responsible 
management of natural resources, including— 
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"(1) continued efforts by the international agricultural 
research centers and other international research entities to 
provide a global network, including United States universities, 
for international scientific collaboration on crops, livestock, for-
ests, fisheries, farming resources, and food systems of worldwide 
importance; 
"(2) contract research and the implementation of collabo-
rative research support programs and other research collabora-
tion led by United States universities, and involving research 
systems in other countries focused on crops, livestock, forests, 
fisheries, farming resources, and food systems, with benefits 
to the United States and partner countries; 
"(3) broadly disseminating the benefits of global agricul-
tural research and development including increased benefits 
for United States agriculturally related industries through 
establishment of development and trade information and service 
centers, for rural as well as urban communities, through exten-
sion, cooperatively 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; 
"(5) expanding learning opportunities about global agri-
culture for students, teachers, community leaders, entre-
preneurs, and the general public through international intern-
ships and exchanges, graduate assistantships, faculty positions, 
and other means of education and extension through long-
term recurring Federal funds matched by State fiinds; and 
"(6) competitive grgmts through universities to United 
States agriculturalists and public and private partners of 
universities fi'om other countries for research, institution and 
policy development, extension, training, and other programs 
for global agricultural development, trade, and responsible 
management 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 component" and 
inserting "each of the program components described in para-
graphs (1) through (6) of subsection (b)"; 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by inserting "and public and private partners of 
universities" after "for the universities"; and 
(B) by striking "and" at the end; 
(3) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) by inserting "and public and private partners of 
universities" after "such universities"; 
(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 subparagraph (B); 
and 
(E) by adding at the end the following: 
"(C) multilateral banks and agencies receiving United 
States funds; 
"(D) development agencies of other countries; and 
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"(E) United States Government foreign assistance and 
economic cooperation programs;"; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
"(4) generally engage the United States university commu-
nity more extensively in the agricultural research, trade, and 
development initiatives undertaken outside the United States, 
with the objectives of strengthening its capacity to carry out 
research, teaching, and extension activities for solving problems 
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 aid recipient 
countries and United States communities and industries, and 
for the wise use of natural resources; and 
"(5) ensure that all federally funded support to universities 
and public and private partners of universities relating to the 
goals of this title is periodically 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 For-
eign 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 UNIVER-
SITIES.—Section 296 of the Foreign Assistance 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 Eind private partners 
of universities' includes entities that have cooperative or contractual 
agreements with universities, which may include formal or informal 
associations of universities, other education institutions. United 
States Government and State agencies, private voluntary organiza-
tions, nongovernmental organizations, firms operated for profit, non-
profit organizations, multinational beinks, £ind, as designated by 
the Administrator, 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' includes the 
science and practice of activity related to food, feed, and fiber 
production, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization, and 
trade, and also includes family and consumer sciences, nutrition, 
food science and engineering, agricultural economics and other 
social sciences, forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, 
veterinary medicine, and other environmental and natural resources 
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' includes 
farmers, herders, and livestock producers, individuals who fish and 
others employed in cultivating and harvesting food resources from 
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salt and fresh waters, individuals who cultivate trees and shrubs 
and harvest nontimber forest products, as well as the processors, 
managers, teachers, extension specialists, researchers, policy-
makers, 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 For-
eign 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 
related 
environmental 
collaborative research and learning 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 "research cen-
ters"; and 
(C) by striking "and the institutions of agriculturally 
developing nations" and inserting "multilateral banks, the 
institutions 
of agriculturally developing nations, 
and 
United States and foreign nongovernmental organizations 
supporting extension and other productivity-enhancing pro-
grams". 
(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 univer-
sities with public and private partners of universities"; 
and 
(B) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by inserting ", environment," before "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 Agriculture, State agricultural agencies, 
the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, 
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, the Food and Drug Administra-
tion, other appropriate Federal agencies, and appropriate non-
governmental 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 agricultural producers, 
rural families, processors, traders, consumers, and natural 
resources managers;"; and 
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(2) in paragraph (4), to read as follows: 
"(4) be carried out within the developing countries and 
transition countries comprising newly emerging democracies 
and newly liberalized economies; and". 
(d) SPECIAL PROGRAMS.—Section 297 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220b) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
"(e) The Administrator shall establish and carry out special 
programs under this title as part of ongoing programs for child 
survival, democratization, development of free enterprise, environ-
mental and natural resource management, and other related pro-
grams.". 
SEC. 4. BOARD FOR BSfTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL 
DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 298(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(a)) is amended 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 
participating in the planning, development, and implementation 
of, initiating recommendations for, and monitoring, the activities 
described in section 297 of this title.". 
(c) DUTIES OF THE BOARD.—Section 298(c) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2220c(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking "increase food 
production" and all that follows and inserting the following: 
"improve agricultural production, trade, and natural 
resource management in developing countries, and with 
private organizations seeking to increase 
agricultural 
production and trade, natural resources management, and 
household food security in developing and transition coun-
tries;"; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting before "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 developing 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) developing information exchanges and consulting regu-
larly with nongovernmental organizations, consumer groups, 
producers, 
agribusinesses 
and 
associations, 
agricultural 
cooperatives and commodity groups, State departments of agri-
culture, State agricultural research and extension agencies, 
and academic institutions; 
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"(9) 
investigating 
and 
resolving 
issues 
concerning 
implementation of this title as requested by universities; and 
"(10) advising the Administrator on any and all issues 
as requested.". 
(d) SUBORDINATE UNITS.—Section 298(d) of the Foreign Assist-
ance 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 inserting "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 Operations 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". 
Approved October 27, 2000. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4002: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 146 (2000): 
July 24, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 4, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 12, House concurred in Senate amendment. 
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