[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 86 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 86

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Food and 
  Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and reaffirming the 
        United States commitment to end hunger and malnutrition.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 28 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

 Mr. Simon (for himself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. 
Inouye) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice 
 and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Food and 
  Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and reaffirming the 
        United States commitment to end hunger and malnutrition.

Whereas, with each passing hour, more than 1,000 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 6,000,000,000 by the year 2000, placing 
        ever more intense demands on the agricultural production and environment 
        of the United States;
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 the United States is to build world agriculture to meet these 
        challenges, the United States must strengthen and not lessen 
        international cooperation in agriculture both bilaterally and through 
        the United Nations;
Whereas 50 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 through 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, although more than twice the number of people are being adequately fed 
        today than at the end of the Second World War, nearly 800,000,000 people 
        remain chronically hungry, and the world still has not met the goal of 
        ``freedom from want of food'' that President Franklin Roosevelt set in 
        convening the Hot Springs Convention;
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 158 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 the President of the 
United States is authorized and requested--
            (1) to issue a proclamation commemorating the fiftieth 
        anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture 
        Organization of the United Nations at Hot Springs, Virginia; 
        and
            (2) 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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