[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5311-S5312]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 5833. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Risch) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for
himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R.
7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:
SECTION 1214. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY.
(a) Short Title.--The section may be cited as the ``Global
Food Security Reauthorization Act of 2022''.
(b) Findings.--Section 2 of the Global Food Security Act of
2016 (22 U.S.C. 9301) is amended by striking ``Congress
makes'' and all that follows through ``(3) A comprehensive''
and inserting ``Congress finds that a comprehensive''.
(c) Statement of Policy Objectives; Sense of Congress.--
Section 3(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 9302(a)) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking
``programs, activities, and initiatives that'' and inserting
``comprehensive, multi-sectoral programs, activities, and
initiatives that consider agriculture and food systems in
their totality and that''.
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and economic freedom
through the coordination'' and inserting ``, economic
freedom, and security through the phasing, sequencing, and
coordination'';
(3) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and inserting the
following:
``(3) increase the productivity, incomes, and livelihoods
of small-scale producers and artisanal fishing communities,
especially women in these communities, by working across
terrestrial and aquatic food systems and agricultural value
chains, including by--
``(A) enhancing local capacity to manage agricultural
resources and food systems effectively and expanding producer
access to, and participation in, local, regional, and
international markets;
``(B) increasing the availability and affordability of high
quality nutritious and safe foods and clean water;
``(C) creating entrepreneurship opportunities and improving
access to business development related to agriculture and
food systems, including among youth populations, linked to
local, regional, and international markets; and
``(D) enabling partnerships to facilitate the development
of and investment in new agricultural technologies to support
more resilient and productive agricultural practices;
``(4) build resilience to agriculture and food systems
shocks and stresses, including global food catastrophes in
which conventional methods of agriculture are unable to
provide sufficient food and nutrition to sustain the global
population, among vulnerable populations and households
through inclusive growth, while reducing reliance upon
emergency food and economic assistance;'';
(4) by amending paragraph (6) to read as follows:
``(6) improve the nutritional status of women, adolescent
girls, and children, with a focus on reducing child stunting
and incidence of wasting, including through the promotion of
highly nutritious foods, diet diversification, large-scale
food fortification, and nutritional behaviors that improve
maternal and child health and nutrition, especially during
the first 1,000-day window until a child reaches 2 years of
age;''; and
(5) in paragraph (7)--
(A) by striking ``science and technology,'' and inserting
``combating fragility, resilience, science and technology,
natural resource management''; and
(B) by inserting ``, including deworming,'' after
``nutrition,''.
(d) Definitions.--Section 4 of the Global Food Security Act
of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9303) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, including in
response to shocks and stresses to food and nutrition
security'' before the period at the end;
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (12) as
paragraphs (5) through (13), respectively;
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
``(4) Food system.--The term `food system' means the intact
or whole unit made up of interrelated components of people,
behaviors, relationships, and material goods that interact in
the production, processing, packaging, transporting, trade,
marketing, consumption, and use of food, feed, and fiber
through aquaculture, farming, wild fisheries, forestry, and
pastoralism that operates within and is influenced by social,
political, economic, and environmental contexts.'';
(4) in paragraph (6), as redesignated, by amending
subparagraph (H) to read as follows:
``(H) local agricultural producers, including farmer and
fisher organizations, cooperatives, small-scale producers,
youth, and women; and'';
(5) in paragraph (7), as redesignated, by inserting ``the
Inter-American Foundation,'' after ``United States African
Development Foundation,'';
(6) in paragraph (9), as redesignated--
(A) by inserting ``agriculture and food'' before
``systems''; and
(B) by inserting ``, including global food catastrophes,''
after ``food security'';
(7) in paragraph (10), as redesignated, by striking
``fishers'' and inserting ``artisanal fishing communities'';
(8) in paragraph (11), as redesignated, by amending
subparagraphs (D) and (E) to read as follows:
``(D) is a marker of an environment deficient in the
various needs that allow for a child's healthy growth,
including nutrition; and
``(E) is associated with long-term poor health, delayed
motor development, impaired cognitive function, and decreased
immunity'';
(9) in paragraph (13), as redesignated, by striking
``agriculture and nutrition security'' and inserting ``food
and nutrition security and agriculture-led economic growth'';
and
(10) by adding at the end the following:
``(14) Wasting.--The term `wasting' means--
``(A) a life-threatening condition attributable to poor
nutrient intake or disease that is characterized by a rapid
deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of
time; and
``(B) in the case of children, is characterized by low
weight for height and weakened immunity, increasing their
risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of common
infection, particularly when severe.''.
(e) Comprehensive Global Food Security Strategy.--Section
5(a) of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9304)
is amended--
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``country-owned
agriculture, nutrition, and food security policy and
investment plans'' and inserting ``partner country-led
agriculture, nutrition, regulatory, food security, and water
resources management policy and investment plans and
governance systems'';
(2) by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows:
``(5) support the locally-led and inclusive development of
agriculture and food systems, including by enhancing the
extent to which small-scale food producers, especially women,
have access to and control over the inputs, skills, resource
management capacity, networking, bargaining power, financing,
market linkages, technology, and information needed to
sustainably increase productivity and incomes, reduce poverty
and malnutrition, and promote long-term economic
prosperity;'';
(3) in paragraph (6)--
(A) by inserting ``, adolescent girls,'' after ``women'';
and
(B) by inserting ``and preventing incidence of wasting''
after ``reducing child stunting'';
(4) in paragraph (7), by inserting ``poor water resource
management and'' after ``including'';
(5) in paragraph (8)--
(A) by striking ``the long term success of programs'' and
inserting ``long-term impact''; and
(B) by inserting ``, including agricultural research
capacity,'' after ``institutions'';
(6) in paragraph (9), by striking ``integrate resilience
and nutrition strategies into food security programs, such
that chronically vulnerable populations are better able to''
and inserting ``coordinate with and complement relevant
strategies to ensure that chronically vulnerable populations
are better able to adapt,'';
(7) by redesignating paragraph (17) as paragraph (22);
(8) by redesignating paragraphs (12) through (16) as
paragraphs (14) through (18), respectively;
(9) by striking paragraphs (10) and (11) and inserting the
following:
``(10) develop community and producer resilience and
adaptation strategies to disasters, emergencies, and other
shocks and stresses to food and nutrition security, including
conflicts, droughts, flooding, pests, and diseases, that
adversely impact agricultural yield and livelihoods;
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``(11) harness science, technology, and innovation,
including the research and extension activities supported by
the private sector, relevant Federal departments and
agencies, Feed the Future Innovation Labs or any successor
entities, and international and local researchers and
innovators, recognizing that significant investments in
research and technological advances will be necessary to
reduce global poverty, hunger, and malnutrition;
``(12) use evidenced-based best practices, including
scientific and forecasting data, and improved planning and
coordination by, with, and among key partners and relevant
Federal departments and agencies to identify, analyze,
measure, and mitigate risks, and strengthen resilience
capacities;
``(13) ensure scientific and forecasting data is accessible
and usable by affected communities and facilitate
communication and collaboration among local stakeholders in
support of adaptation planning and implementation, including
scenario planning and preparedness using seasonal forecasting
and scientific and local knowledge;'';
(10) in paragraph (15), as redesignated, by inserting
``nongovernmental organizations, including'' after ``civil
society,'';
(11) in paragraph (16), as redesignated, by inserting ``and
coordination, as appropriate,'' after ``collaboration'';
(12) in paragraph (18), as redesignated, by striking
``section 8(b)(4); and'' and inserting ``section 8(a)(4);'';
and
(13) by inserting after paragraph (18), as redesignated,
the following:
``(19) improve the efficiency and resilience of
agricultural production, including management of crops,
rangelands, pastures, livestock, fisheries, and aquacultures;
``(20) ensure investments in food and nutrition security
consider and integrate best practices in the management and
governance of natural resources and conservation, especially
among food insecure populations living in or near biodiverse
ecosystems;
``(21) be periodically updated in a manner that reflects
learning and best practices; and''.
(f) Periodic Updates.--Section 5 of the Global Food
Security Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9304), as amended by
subsection (e), is further amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(d) Periodic Updates.--Not less frequently than
quinquennially through fiscal year 2030, the President, in
consultation with the head of each relevant Federal
department and agency, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees updates to the Global Food Security
Strategy required under subsection (a) and the agency-
specific plans described in subsection (c)(2).''.
(g) Authorization of Appropriations to Implement the Global
Food Security Strategy.--Section 6(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C.
9305(b)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``$1,000,600,000 for each of fiscal years
2017 through 2023'' and inserting ``$1,200,000,000 for each
of the fiscal years 2024 through 2028''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: ``Amounts
authorized to appropriated under this subsection should be
prioritized to carry out programs and activities in target
countries.''.
(h) Emergency Food Security Program.--
(1) In general.--Section 7 of the Global Food Security Act
of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9306) is amended by striking ``(a) Sense
of Congress.--'' and all that follows through ``It shall be''
and inserting ``It shall be''.
(2) Authorization of appropriations.--Section 492(a) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2292a(a)) is
amended by striking ``$2,794,184,000 for each of fiscal years
2017 through 2023, of which up to $1,257,382,000'' and
inserting ``$3,905,460,000 for each of the fiscal years 2024
through 2028, of which up to $1,757,457,000''.
(i) Reports.--Section 8(a) of the Global Food Security Act
of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9307) is amended--
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
(A) by striking ``During each of the first 7 years after
the date of the submission of the strategy required under
section 5(c),'' and inserting ``For each of the fiscal years
2024 through 2028,'';
(B) by striking ``reports that describe'' and inserting ``a
report that describes''; and
(C) by striking ``at the end of the reporting period'' and
inserting ``during the preceding year'';
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, including any
changes to the target countries selected pursuant to the
selection criteria described in section 5(a)(2) and
justifications for any such changes'' before the semicolon at
the end;
(3) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``identify and'' before
``describe'';
(4) by redesignating paragraphs (12) through (14) as
paragraphs (15) through (17), respectively;
(5) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (11) as
paragraphs (7) through (13), respectively;
(6) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
``(4) identify and describe the priority quantitative
metrics used to establish baselines and performance targets
at the initiative, country, and zone of influence levels;
``(5) identify such established baselines and performance
targets at the country and zone of influence levels;
``(6) identify the output and outcome benchmarks and
indicators used to measure results annually, and report the
annual measurement of results for each of the priority
metrics identified pursuant to paragraph (4), disaggregated
by age, gender, and disability, to the extent practicable and
appropriate, in an open and transparent manner that is
accessible to the people of the United States;'';
(7) in paragraph (7), as redesignated, by striking
``agriculture'' and inserting ``food'';
(8) in paragraph (8), as redesignated--
(A) by inserting ``quantitative and qualitative'' after
``how''; and
(B) by inserting ``at the initiative, country, and zone of
influence levels, including longitudinal data and key
uncertainties'' before the semicolon at the end;
(9) in paragraph (9), as redesignated, by inserting
``within target countries, amounts and justification for any
spending outside of target countries'' after ``amounts
spent'';
(10) in paragraph (13), as redesignated, by striking ``and
the impact of private sector investment'' and inserting ``and
efforts to encourage financial donor burden sharing and the
impact of such investment and efforts'';
(11) by inserting after paragraph (13), as redesignated,
the following:
``(14) describe how agriculture research is prioritized
within the Global Food Security Strategy to support
agriculture-led growth and eventual self-sufficiency and
assess efforts to coordinate research programs within the
Global Food Security Strategy with key stakeholders;'';
(12) in paragraph (16), as redesignated, by striking
``and'' at the end;
(13) in paragraph (17), as redesignated--
(A) by inserting ``, including key challenges or
missteps,'' after ``lessons learned''; and
(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``;
and''; and
(14) by adding at the end the following:
``(18) during the final year of each strategy required
under section 5, complete country graduation reports to
determine whether a country should remain a target country
based on quantitative and qualitative analysis.''.
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