[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 7402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02666]


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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 9:00 
a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Friday, February 27, 2015 in the Association 
Multipurpose Room at the Association of Public and Land Grant 
University Offices, 1307 New York Avenue, Washington, DC. The meeting 
will be streamed live on the Internet. The link to the global live 
stream is on BIFAD's home page: http://www.usaid.gov/bifad.
    The central theme of this year's meeting will be Human and 
Institutional Capacity Development in Agricultural Innovation Systems. 
Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair, will preside over the public business 
meeting, which will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. with opening remarks. 
At this public meeting, the Board will address old and new business and 
hear updates from USAID, the university community, and other experts on 
how human and institutional capacity development can support 
agricultural innovation systems.
    Starting at 9:15 a.m., Chairman Deaton will moderate a panel to 
inform BIFAD and the public of engagement of the USAID Bureau for Food 
Security on agriculture and nutrition dimensions of the global Ebola 
response. Presenters for this panel are Richard Greene, Senior Deputy 
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food Security and Meredith Soule, 
Division Chief, Country Strategies and Implementation, Bureau for Food 
Security.
    Starting at 10:00 a.m., Chairman Deaton will moderate a panel on 
the USAID/BIFAD/APLU Agricultural Exchange on Human and Institutional 
Capacity Development (AgExchange). BIFAD and USAID with support from 
the Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU) held a three 
day facilitated online discussion from November 17-20, 2014 around the 
topic Feeding the World in 2050: How Human and Institutional Capacity 
Development Can Support Agricultural Innovation Systems. The 
AgExchange, facilitated by Cultural Practice, was well-attended and 
brought together various stakeholders from around the world. Deborah 
Rubin from Cultural Practice will summarize and present the results of 
the BIFAD/USAID/APLU AgExchange. Responding to these results will be 
Gretchen Neisler, Director for Global Connection in Food, Agriculture 
and Natural Resources, and Elon Gilbert, Vice Chairman, Rocky Mountain 
Biologicals, Inc.
    At 11:30 a.m., Chairman Deaton will moderate a half-hour public 
comment period. At 12:00 p.m. BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton will make 
closing remarks and adjourn the public 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 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., Room 2.09-067, 
Washington, DC 20523-2110 or telephone her at (202) 712-0218.

Susan Owens,
Executive Director and USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, 
Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. 2015-02666 Filed 2-9-15; 8:45 am]
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