---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1445f"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1445f"
heading: "International Emergency Food Reserve"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1445f"
units:
  - "Chapter 35A — Price Support of Agricultural Commodities"
  - "Subchapter II — Basic Agricultural Commodities"
---

# §1445f. International Emergency Food Reserve


The President is encouraged to enter into negotiations with other nations to develop an international system of food reserves to provide for humanitarian food relief needs and to establish and maintain a food reserve, as a contribution of the United States toward the development of such a system, to be made available in the event of food emergencies in foreign countries. The reserves shall be known as the International Emergency Food Reserve.


## Source credit

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title I, § 111, as added Pub. L. 95–113, title XI, § 1102, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 953.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.