Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§262g Human Nutrition in Developing Countries and United States Assistance Policies with International Financial Institutions; Declaration of Policy
Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › § 262g
Summary
Use its votes and voice at certain international development banks to fight hunger and help economic growth. The United States must push aid toward projects that help countries grow food and improve nutrition, especially when they are working to boost farming, and must oppose loans that expand palm oil, sugar, or citrus exports if that would hurt U.S. producers.
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Title 22, §262g
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The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Fund, and the Asian Development Bank, to combat hunger and malnutrition and to encourage economic development in the developing countries, with emphasis on assistance to those countries that are determined to improve their own agricultural production, by seeking to channel assistance for agriculturally related development to projects that would aid in fulfilling domestic food and nutrition needs and in alleviating hunger and malnutrition in the recipient country. The United States representatives to the institutions named in this section shall oppose any loan or other financial assistance for establishing or expanding production for export of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops if such loan or assistance will cause injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing agricultural commodity.
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Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–35 redesignated subsec. (a) as entire section and struck out subsec. (b) which related to an annual report to Congress on the progress towards achieving the goals of this section.
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Effective Date
of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as an
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note under section 290i of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 3, 1977, see section 1001 of Pub. L. 95–118, set out as a note under section 282i of this title.
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22 U.S.C. § 262g
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102