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Vol. 83, No. 163 

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Meeting; Board for 

International Food and Agricultural 

Development 

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 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT 

on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at 

the Murrow/White/Lisagor Room, 13th 

Floor, National Press Club, 529 14th 

Street NW, Washington, DC. 

Participants may attend in person or 

join via livestream. The link to the 

global live stream as well as registration 

information can be found on BIFAD’s 

home page and online at http://

www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/ 

international-programs/bifad/bifadmeetings.html. 

The central theme of this public 

meeting will be the new Feed the Future 

Learning Agenda which builds on the 

first Feed the Future Learning Agenda 

launched in 2012. Dr. Mark Keenum, 

BIFAD Chair, will preside over the 

public business meeting, which will 

begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. EDT with 

opening remarks. At this meeting the 

Board will address old and new 

business. Old business will include an 

update on a study commissioned by 

BIFAD and USAID on U.S. benefits and 

capabilities leveraged from strategic 

USAID investments in developing 

country agriculture and food security by 

Dr. Joseph Glauber, Senior Research 

Fellow at the International Food Policy 

Research Institute (IFPRI). After this, the 

Board will then engage in a dialogue 

and provide feedback on the Feed the 

Future Learning Agenda. 

Through the Learning Agenda, the 

U.S. Government seeks to improve the 

effectiveness and efficiency of the Feed 

the Future initiative by generating, 

synthesizing, communicating and 

applying evidence related to key 

questions. Evidence from the Learning 

Agenda will inform the design of Feed 

the Future-related strategies, programs, 

projects and activities. The Learning 

Agenda will also serve to address 

requirements laid out in section 8(a)(14) 

of the Global Food Security Act on 

sharing lessons learned from 

implementation of the Global Food 

Security Strategy. 

This Feed the Future Learning 

Agenda will focus on eight areas: (1) 

Gender and women’s empowerment, (2) 

Market systems, (3) Policy systems, (4) 

Nutrition, (5) Risk and resilience, (6) 

Youth, (7) Water and Water Sanitation 

and Hygiene (WASH), and (8) Scaling 

technologies and practices. These areas 

reflect work and research being carried 

out under the Feed the Future initiative. 

Analytical outputs from the work in 

these areas will feed into the answering 

Learning Agenda questions. BIFAD is 

taking this opportunity to welcome 

public input on these focus areas, the 

types of questions to be examined, and 

research under way that might help 

contribute. 

Beginning at 12:30 p.m. EDT, 

Chairman Keenum will moderate a halfhour public comment period. The 

public meeting will adjourn at 1:00 p.m. 

EDT with Dr. Keenum’s closing remarks. 

Those wishing to attend the meeting 

or obtain additional information about 

BIFAD should contact Clara Cohen, 

Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD in 

the Bureau for Food Security at USAID. 

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, Washington, 

DC 20523–2110 or telephone her at 

(202) 712–0119. 

Clara Cohen, 

Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD, Bureau 

for Food Security, U.S. Agency for 

International Development. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0052] 

Notice of Request for an Extension of 

Approval of an Information Collection; 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency 

Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Extension of approval of an 

information collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request an extension of approval of an 

information collection associated with 

qualitative customer and stakeholder 

feedback on service delivery by the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before October 22, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0052. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2018–0052, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://

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docketDetail;D=APHIS-2018-0052 or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

Room 1141 of the USDA South 

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Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal 

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help you, please call (202) 7997039 

before coming. 

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more detailed information on this 

information collection, contact Ms. 

Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information 

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