; (2) accelerated economic growth, reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, especially among women and children; (3) increased productivity, income, and livelihoods of small-scale producers, especially women; (4) building resilience and reduce reliance on emergency food; (5) promoting property rights; (6) improving nutritional status of women and children; (7) aligning and leveraging broader United States strategies in science and technology in water, sanitation, and hygiene; (8) partnering with higher education; and (9) ensuring effective use of taxpayer dollars; Whereas annual Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and State and Foreign Operations appropriation bills fund titles and programs within the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of Agriculture under Development Assistance, Feed the Future, Food for Peace Title II, and the Cooperative Development Program, and grantee organizations use funding to advance international development using cooperative principles and the cooperative model; Whereas Federal legislation authorized a cooperative research program with academic institutions to conduct research on the effects of all types of cooperatives on the national economy as part of the 2008 farm bill; Whereas the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations Acts included appropriations in fiscal years 2006 through 2010 for the Department of Agriculture to enter into agreements with academic institutions to conduct research on the national economic impact on all types of cooperatives, which totaled $2,095,000