[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8263-8264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2744]


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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Board for International Food and Agricultural Development One 
Hundred and Fifty-Third Meeting; Notice of Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby 
given of the one hundred and fifty-third meeting of the Board for 
International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD). The meeting 
will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 27, 2008 at the National 
Press Club located at 529 14th St., NW., Washington, DC. The venue will 
be the 1st Amendment Room which is located on the 13th floor of the 
National Press Club.
    Dr. Robert Easter, Chairman of BIFAD will open the meeting. Dr. 
Easter is the Dean, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environment 
Sciences at the University of Illinois. Dean Easter's appointment as 
Chairman was confirmed by the White House on January 21, 2008. Dean 
Easter has been serving as interim Chairman since April 30, 2007 when 
Mr. Peter McPherson, former USAID Administrator, resigned from the 
Board. The Board also welcomes two new members: Mr. H. H. Barlow III 
(Kentucky) and Mr. Keith Eckel (Pennsylvania). They will be sworn in by 
Jacqueline E. Schafer, Assistant Administrator for the Economic Growth, 
Agriculture and Trade Bureau, USAID.
    The morning session's topics will include presentations on the 
Global Summit on Higher Education and Development, and also the Global 
Development Commons as being initiated by USAID Administrator Henrietta 
H. Fore. Status Reports will be given on two of BIFAD's activities; the 
study on ``Defining a Title XII Activity,'' and the Conference of Deans 
which is being planned for April 2008. There will be a general 
discussion focusing on Strategic Directions of BIFAD in 2008. 
Jacqueline E. Schafer will brief the Board on the President's 2009 
budget and its impacts for agriculture programs.
    Following the Board's executive luncheon (closed to the public) and 
the swearing-in of the new Board members BIFAD will be updated on the 
``Universities as Sub-Contractor's'' issue and on USAID's approach for 
preparing the 2007 Title XII Report. Highlighting the afternoon session 
will be discussion with the Office of Agriculture on planning actions 
for two new CRSPs (Global Horticulture and Global Livestock-Climate 
Change). BIFAD committee actions will also be discussed; including 
updates by Ray Miller, Chair of BIFAD's new special Task Force and 
Sandra Russo, Chair of BIFAD's sub-committee Strategic Partnership for 
Agricultural Research and Education (SPARE).
    SPARE-Special Notice: The SPARE committee will hold its next 
meeting on February 26, 2008. It will begin at 1:30 p.m. The meeting 
venue is in the multi-purpose conference room located on the

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1st floor of NASULGC's offices located at 1307 New York Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC.
    The Board and SPARE meetings are free and open to the public. The 
Board and SPARE welcomes an open dialog to promote greater focus on 
critical issues facing USAID and international agriculture. Those 
wishing to attend the meeting or obtain additional information about 
BIFAD should contact Dr. Ronald S. Senykoff, the Designated Federal 
Officer for BIFAD. Write him in care of the U.S. Agency for 
International Development, Ronald Reagan Building, Office of 
Agriculture, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, 1300 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 2.11-085, Washington, DC 20523-2110 or 
telephone him at (202) 712-0218 or fax (202) 216-3010.

Ronald S. Senykoff,
USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, Office of Agriculture and 
Food Security, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture & Trade, U.S. 
Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. E8-2744 Filed 2-12-08; 8:45 am]
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