[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 193 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 193

 Honoring the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations 
     on its fiftieth anniversary and reaffirming the United States 
               commitment to end hunger and malnutrition.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 1993

  Mr. de la Garza (for himself, Mr. Rose, Mr. McDade, Ms. Danner, Mr. 
    Scott, Mr. Towns, Mr. Hall of Ohio, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Filner, Ms. 
 Slaughter, Mr. Emerson, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Hochbrueckner, Mr. Stokes, 
  Mr. Sarpalius, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Wheat, Mr. Evans, Mr. 
 Sabo, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Kreidler, Mr. Edwards of Texas, 
 Mr. Torres, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Rush, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Olver, 
  Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Frost, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. 
    Maloney, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Hughes, and Mr. Leach) introduced the 
     following joint resolution; which was referred jointly to the 
      Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and Agriculture

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations 
     on its fiftieth anniversary and reaffirming the United States 
               commitment to end hunger and malnutrition.

Whereas, with each passing hour, more than one thousand young children die among 
        the poor of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, lost to their families 
        because their parents could not feed them;
Whereas, for lack of food, millions of the world's poor are left stunted, 
        mentally retarded or blind, and countless others are continually 
        weakened by anemia, condemned to do little more than survive;
Whereas world population will climb past six billion by the year 2000, placing 
        ever more intense demands on our agricultural production and 
        environment;
Whereas this growth in global population will require innovative scientific, 
        economic, and political measures to address hunger among the poor, 
        especially to promote more efficient and sustainable agricultural 
        production and a broader distribution of food;
Whereas, if we are to further build world agriculture to meet these challenges, 
        we must strengthen and not lessen international cooperation in 
        agriculture both bilaterally and through the United Nations;
Whereas fifty years ago, in the midst of World War II, the United States and its 
        allies recognized the need for global cooperation to end the scourge of 
        hunger and took the first steps to found the Food and Agriculture 
        Organization of the United Nations at the first United Nations 
        Conference on Food and Agriculture held at the Homestead in Hot Springs, 
        Virginia, May 18-June 3, 1943;
Whereas, through advances in agricultural technology, the nations of the world--
        including the developing countries--now have more than enough food to 
        feed every man, woman, and child so that suffering from hunger need not 
        continue;
Whereas, while more than twice the number of people are being adequately fed 
        today than at the end of the Second World War, nearly eight hundred 
        million people remain chronically hungry and we still have not met the 
        goal of ``freedom from want of food'' that President Franklin Roosevelt 
        set in convening the Hot Springs Conference;
Whereas, at the International Conference on Nutrition in December 1992, many of 
        the goals of the Hot Springs Conference were reaffirmed and the United 
        States and one hundred and fifty-eight other countries committed 
        themselves to ending hunger and malnutrition, both domestically and 
        through a Global Plan of Action for Nutrition; and
Whereas the United States has agreed to adopt its own National Plan of Action 
        for Nutrition by the end of 1994; Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That to call upon the 
President of the United States to issue a proclamation honoring the 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the fiftieth 
anniversary of its beginnings at Hot Springs, Virginia. In issuing this 
proclamation, the Congress authorizes and requests the President to 
reaffirm the commitment of the American people to end hunger and 
malnutrition, both at home and abroad, and to foster the growth of 
agriculture in every quarter of the globe so that one day mankind may 
be truly free from want of food.

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