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Vol. 76, No. 184 

Thursday, September 22, 2011 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Board for International Food and 

Agricultural Development; Notice of 

Meeting 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, notice is hereby given of 

the public meeting of the Board for 

International Food and Agricultural 

Development (BIFAD). The meeting will 

be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on October 

11, 2011 at the Downtown Des Moines 

Marriott located at 700 Grand Avenue, 

Des Moines, Iowa. ‘‘The Next 

Generation: Global Food Security 

through Human and Institutional 

Capacity Building’’ will be the central 

theme of this year’s fall meeting. 

Prior to the public meeting USAID, 

BIFAD and the Association of Land 

Grant Universities (APLU) will co-host 

a luncheon from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. 

featuring Dr. Calestous Juma of Harvard 

as keynote speaker. 

Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair, will 

preside over the proceedings. Dr. Deaton 

is the Chancellor of the University of 

Missouri at Columbia. 

Held in conjunction with the 2011 

World Food Prize Symposium, this 

year’s meeting sets the stage for a robust 

dialogue on the range of challenges 

typically associated with building 

human capital and the local institutions 

that support them. The meeting will 

include the participation of the full 

BIFAD. Including Dr. Deaton, the Board 

is comprised of Jo Luck, past President 

of Heifer International, Marty McVey of 

McVey & Associates, LLC, Gebisa Ejeta 

of Purdue University, Catherine Bertini 

of Syracuse University, Elsa Murano of 

Texas A&M University and William 

DeLauder, formerly of Delaware State 

University. 

Prior to the public Board meeting 

USAID/BIFAD/APLU will host a 

luncheon on Human and Institutional 

Capacity Development. The luncheon 

starts at 11 a.m. and will feature Dr. 

Calestous Juma of Harvard University as 

keynote speaker. Those interested in 

attending the luncheon prior to the 

Board meeting must register in advance 

at (http://humanandinstitutional

capacitybuildingluncheon.

eventbrite.com). The lunch is free and 

open to the public. 

The public meeting will begin 

promptly at 1 p.m. with opening 

remarks by BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton. 

Immediately following is a panel 

featuring young scientists focused on 

their U.S. fellowship experience, host 

country institutional issues, and their 

perspectives on what is needed to 

support and promote the scientists and 

leaders of tomorrow. Panelists will 

include representatives from the 

Norman Borlaug LEAP Fellowship 

program, the USDA Borlaug Fellowship 

program, an AWARD fellow, a lecturer 

from Makerere University in Uganda, 

and a graduate student of a 

Collaborative Research Support 

Program. The second panel, moderated 

by Board member Gebisa Ejeta, will 

feature noted experts in the field of 

human and institutional capacity 

development (HICD) and their 

perspectives on tomorrow’s approaches 

to HICD. USAID will then provide 

updates to the BIFAD on the Feed the 

Future Research Strategy. The Board 

members next will provide updates on 

the activities of their working groups on 

Haiti and Minority Serving Institutions. 

The last 30 minutes of the meeting will 

comprise the public comment period of 

the meeting. 

The Board meeting is open to the 

public and the Board members benefits 

greatly in hearing from the stakeholder 

community and others. To ensure that 

as many people as possible have the 

opportunity to contribute to the 

morning’s discussions, comments will 

be restricted to 3 minutes for each 

commenter. At the conclusion of the 

public comment period, the Board will 

adjourn the meeting. 

Those wishing to attend the meeting 

or obtain additional information about 

BIFAD should contact Susan Owens, 

Executive Director and Designated 

Federal Officer for BIFAD. Interested 

persons may write her in care of the 

U.S. Agency for International 

Development, Ronald Reagan Building, 

Bureau for Food Security, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 7.8– 

061, Washington, DC 20523–2110 or 

telephone her at (202) 712–0218 or fax 

(202) 216–3124. 

Susan J. Owens, 

USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, 

Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for 

International Development. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24385 Filed 9–21–11; 8:45 am] 

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