"Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger"

In 1975 the US Congress enacted the “Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger” Amendment as Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act.  The amendment aimed at bringing US agricultural universities into partnership with USAID in implementing the foreign assistance program.

Agriculture, as defined by Title XII, includes the science and practice of activity related to food, feed, and fiber production, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization, and trade, and also includes family and consumer sciences, nutrition, food science and engineering, agricultural economics and other social sciences, forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, veterinary medicine, and other environmental and natural resources sciences.