Sec. 4. Definitions
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Section 4 of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 ( 22 U.S.C. 9303 ) is amended— in paragraph (2), by inserting , including in response to shocks and stresses to food and nutrition security before the period at the end; in paragraph (5)(H)— by inserting local before agricultural ; by inserting and fisher after farmer ; and by inserting youth, after small-scale producers, ; in paragraph (7), by inserting the Inter-American Foundation, after United States African Development Foundation, ; in paragraph (8)— by inserting agriculture and food before systems ; and by inserting , including global food catastrophes, after food security ; in paragraph (9), by striking fishers and inserting artisanal fishing communities ; in paragraph (10), by amending subparagraphs
(D)and
(E)to read as follows: is a marker of an environment deficient in the various needs that allow for a child’s healthy growth, including nutrition; and is associated with long-term poor health, delayed motor development, impaired cognitive function, and decreased immunity. ; in paragraph (12), by striking agriculture and nutrition security and inserting food and nutrition security and agriculture-led economic growth ; by redesignating paragraphs
(4)through (12), as amended, as paragraphs
(5)through (13), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following: 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. ; and by adding at the end the following: The term wasting means— 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 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. .
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