UN General Assembly
1982

enable the Fund to maintain and even expand its efforts to promote increased food production and strengthen the agricultural infrastructure of developing countries. The decision of the International Monetary Fund to establish a food window to assist low-income countries in correcting the imbalance of their balance of payments resulting from cereal imports is certainly a step in the right direction. Notwithstanding that, concerted efforts should also be made towards recycling the substantial food surpluses in the developed countries. The declining level of concessional resources available for multilateral operational activities is a source of serious concern to the Gambian Government. In the case of UNDP, for example, the financial commitments made so far have fallen far short of the minimum average annual growth of 14 per cent in voluntary contributions envisaged for the third programming cycle, 1982 to 1986. The Administrator of UNDP revealed a few days ago in a statement at the 4th meeting of the Second Committee that for the first year of the cycle, the Programme will not even have sufficient