115th-116th Congresses: Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty Crops
112th-114th Congresses: Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research
Prior to 112th Congress: Subcommittee on Nutrition and Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms.
Jurisdiction
This subcommittee has jurisdiction over "domestic and international nutrition and food assistance and hunger prevention; school and child nutrition programs; local and healthy food initiatives; futures, options and derivatives; pesticides; and general legislation".[1] The origins of the subcommittee lay in the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs that was active from 1968 to 1977 before being subsumed into the Agriculture Committee.[2]