
H.R. 4002 · 106th Congress · enacted
Famine Prevention and Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000
Became Public Law No: 106-373.
Latest official action 2000-10-27 · Enacted
The bill, briefly
Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise congressional declarations of policy with respect to famine prevention and freedom from hunger in developing countries. (Sec. 2) Urges the United States, among other things, to: (1) generally engage the U.S. university community 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 underdeveloped nations, and transforming progress in global agricultural research and development (R&D) into economic growth, trade, and trade benefits for U.S. communities and industries and for the provident use of natural resources; and (2) ensure that all federally funded support to universities and their public and private partners relating to the goals of this Act is periodically reviewed for its performance. Includes Native American land- grant colleges within the definition of "universities". (Sec. 3) Authorizes the President to provide U.S. foreign assistance for long-term program support for U.S. university global agricultural and related environmental collaborative research and learning opportunities for s…
Congressional Research Service · 2000-03-16
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