---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1728"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1728"
heading: "Findings regarding emergency food assistance"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1728"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Food for Peace"
  - "Subchapter III–B — Emergency Food Assistance"
---

# §1728. Findings regarding emergency food assistance


The Congress finds that—

- (1) acute food crises continue to cause loss of life, severe malnutrition, and general human suffering in many [areas](/usc/7/1471.md?p=5) of the Third World, especially in sub-Saharan Africa;
- (2) the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) continues to respond to these needs, as a reflection of its humanitarian concern for the people of the Third World, with emergency food and other necessary assistance to alleviate the suffering of those affected by severe food shortages;
- (3) the timely provision of food and other necessary assistance to those in need is of paramount importance if the worst effects of such food crises are to be mitigated; and
- (4) the ability of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) to provide food and other necessary assistance on a timely basis, and to ensure that such assistance is distributed to those in need, should be enhanced in [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) to better enable the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) to help those affected by severe food shortages.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–473, title III, § 302, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2194.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the President’s Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1984, and not as part of the Food for Peace Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 98–473, title III, § 301, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2194, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter and amending section 1723 of this title] may be cited as the ‘President’s Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1984’.”