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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 61378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24711]

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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 8:45 
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the Downtown Des 
Moines Marriott located at 700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. The 
central theme of this year's meeting will be ``The Nexus of 
Agriculture, Nutrition and Human Health''.
    Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair and Chancellor of the University of 
Missouri at Columbia, will preside over the meeting.
    The public meeting will begin promptly at 8:45 a.m. with opening 
remarks by BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton. The Board will address both old 
and new business during this time and hear from USAID and the 
university community on progress and mechanisms for advancing 
programming in agriculture, with a focus on health and nutrition. There 
will be two panels on this topic, one in the morning and the other in 
the afternoon. Two board members will provide comments on a recent 
visit to Haiti to assess the impact of their recommendations to 
strengthen agricultural research and capacity building. The Board will 
also hear updates on Feed the Future and the G8 New Alliance for Food 
Security and Nutrition and will present their findings from a review of 
the Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) model, with a USAID 
response. Time will then be allowed for public comment.
    In the afternoon, the BIFAD chair will present the reinstituted 
`BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a USAID Collaborative 
Research Support Program.' Additional time for public comment will be 
allowed in the afternoon. At 3:30 p.m., the public meeting of the BIFAD 
will adjourn.
    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 
to her in care of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Ronald 
Reagan Building, Bureau for Food Security, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue 
NW., Room 2.12-001, Washington, DC 20523-2110 or telephone her at (202) 
712-0218.

    Dated: September 20, 2012.
Susan Owens,
USAID Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD.
[FR Doc. 2012-24711 Filed 10-5-12; 8:45 am]
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