---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 279"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "279"
heading: "United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/279"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter VI — United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization"
---

# §279. United States membership in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization


The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (hereinafter referred to as the “Organization”) the Constitution of which is set forth in appendix I of the First Report to the Governments of the United Nations by the Interim [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) on Food and Agriculture, dated August 1, 1944.


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 1, 59 Stat. 529.)