Sec. 103. Reports
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not later than December 31 of each year thereafter through 2019, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of the strategy described in section 102(c) and how it fulfills the policy objectives described in section 101. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include— a copy of the strategy and an indication of any changes made in the strategy during the preceding calendar year; an assessment of progress made during the preceding calendar year toward meeting the objectives described in section 101 and the specific goals, benchmarks, and time frames specified in the strategy described in section 102(c); a description of United States Government bilateral programs, and investments in multilateral institutions, contributing to the achievement of the objectives described in section 101, including the amounts expended on such programs during the preceding fiscal year; an assessment of United States efforts to encourage business and philanthropic participation in United States food and nutrition security and agricultural development programs, and to coordinate, harmonize, and align such programs with similar efforts of international organizations, international financial institutions, the governments of developing and developed countries, and United States and international nongovernmental organizations; an assessment of progress made and capacity gaps in implementing and institutionalizing a comprehensive approach to food and nutrition security, including integration of cross-cutting issues such as gender, environment, and nutrition, through coordinating and integrating global food and nutrition security and agricultural development research activities with other United States bilateral and multilateral development efforts in the areas of operation; an assessment of land tenure rights and land purchases within each country and their consistency with the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure; a description of those countries with the greatest level of food insecurity, stunting, and malnutrition for the primary goal of increasing food and nutrition security; and a transparent, open, and detailed budget of agriculture and food security spending and progress pertaining to the strategy described in section 102(c). Not later than 270 days after the submission of each report under paragraph (1), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains— a review of, and comments addressing, the report submitted under paragraph (1); and recommendations relating to any additional actions the Comptroller General believes are important to improve a global food security, nutrition security, and agricultural development strategy and its implementation. Not later than 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing— an assessment of progress made during the preceding 4 years toward meeting the objectives described in section 101 and the specific goals, benchmarks, and time frames specified in the strategy described in section 102(c); and an evaluation of the impact during the preceding 5 years of United States food and nutrition security programs on food security, agricultural development, nutrition, health, stunting, water and soil health, biodiversity, and economic growth in countries suffering from chronic food insecurity. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall be based on assessments and impact evaluations utilizing sound quantitative and qualitative methodologies and techniques used in the behavioral and social sciences, and shall incorporate the views of smallholder farmers in the recipient countries. Each report required under this section shall also be made available to the public.