[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 175 (Monday, September 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 53773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17955]


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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Board for International Food and Agricultural Development; One 
Hundred and Forty-Fifth Meeting; Notice of Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby 
given of the one hundred and forty-fifth meeting of the Board for 
International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD). The meeting 
will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. on 
October 12th, 2005 in the Marriott Hotel, 7th and Grand Avenue, Des 
Moines, Iowa. The meeting is being held in conjunction with the World 
Food Prize events scheduled for October 13-14 in Des Moines.
    The BIFAD will interact with representatives from U.S. 
universities, Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs), 
agribusiness and private sector communities along with international 
agriculture leaders from Africa. Themes will focus on agriculture and 
human nutrition as they relate to countering HIV/AIDS, enhancing 
cognitive child development and other aspects of human nutrition as 
well as emerging issues in international agricultural development, and 
other items of general interest.
    The meeting is free and open to the public. Those wishing to attend 
the meeting or obtain additional information about BIFAD should contact 
John Rifenbark, the Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD. Write him in 
care of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Ronald Reagan 
Building, Office of Agriculture and Food Security, 1300 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Room 2.11-85, Washington DC, 20523-2110 or telephone him 
at (202) 712-0163 or fax (202) 216-3010.

John T. Rifenbark,
USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, Office of Agriculture, 
Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture & Trade, U.S. Agency for 
International Development.
[FR Doc. 05-17955 Filed 9-9-05; 8:45 am]
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