Sec. 5. Comprehensive global food security strategy
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Section 5(a) of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 ( 22 U.S.C. 9304(a) ) is amended— in paragraph (4), by striking country-owned agriculture, nutrition, and food security policy and inserting partner country-led agriculture, nutrition, regulatory, food security, and water resources management policy ; and by amending paragraph
(5)to read as follows: support the locally led and inclusive development of agriculture and food systems, with small-scale producers, especially women, gaining greater access to the inputs, skills, resource management capacity, networking, bargaining power, financing, market linkages, technology, and information needed to sustainably increase productivity and incomes to reduce extreme poverty and malnutrition, and promote long-term economic prosperity; ; in paragraph (6)— by inserting , adolescent girls, after women ; and by inserting and preventing incidence of wasting after reducing child stunting ; in paragraph (7), by inserting poor water resource management and after including ; in paragraph (8)— by striking the long term success of programs and inserting long-term impact ; and by inserting , including agricultural research capacity, after institutions ; in paragraph (9)— by striking and nutrition strategies and inserting , nutrition strategies, and effective natural resource management approaches ; and by inserting adapt, before build safety nets ; by redesignating paragraphs
(12)through
(17)as paragraphs
(13)through (18), respectively; by striking paragraphs
(10)and
(11)and inserting the following: develop community and producer resilience to disasters and emergencies, including droughts, flooding, pests, and diseases, that adversely impact agricultural yield and livelihoods; utilize 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; 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; ; in paragraph (14), as redesignated, by inserting nongovernmental organizations, including after civil society, in paragraph (17), as redesignated, by striking and at the end; in paragraph (18), as redesignated, by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: be periodically updated in a manner that reflects learning and best practices. . Section 5 of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 ( 22 U.S.C. 9304 ), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following: Not less frequently than quinquennially through fiscal year 2031, 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). .
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