; Whereas the Global Food Security Act identified cooperatives among key stakeholders who are actors engaged in efforts to advance global food security programs; 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 an Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development was established in the Agricultural Act of 2014 and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate and chair an interagency working group to foster cooperative development and ensure coordination with Federal agencies and national and local cooperative organizations that have cooperative programs and interests, and has organized four meetings thus far; Whereas a bipartisan Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus unites Members of Congress in a cause to create a better informed electorate and a more educated public on the important role that cooperatives play in the national and international economy, to promote the cooperative business model because it ensures consumers have access to high-quality goods and services at competitive prices and costs that better the lives of individuals, families, and their communities, and to address and correct awareness challenges among the public and within the Government on what a co-op looks like, who are co-ops, where are co-ops, and why do people choose them