[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16823-16824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-07966]


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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 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at the Rotunda, Ronald 
Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. 
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: http://www.usaid.gov/bifad.
    The central theme of this public meeting will be Building an 
Evidence Base on Rural Youth Employment and Livelihoods. Dr. Brady 
Deaton, Acting BIFAD Chair, will preside over the public business 
meeting, which will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. ET with opening 
remarks. At this meeting, the Board will address old and new business 
and hear updates from USAID and the university community. The purpose 
of the meeting is to develop a shared understanding of rural labor 
markets and youth-specific constraints, discuss the evidence base on 
programs that aim to improve rural youth employment and livelihoods, 
outline cross-sectoral opportunities to support and empower youth to 
take advantage of agricultural system market opportunities, and 
identify knowledge gaps on which U.S. university research partners can 
generate evidence to address.
    Following the opening remarks, the meeting will feature experts as 
well as panel discussions on the following topics:
     A Conceptual Framework on Youth and Agricultural 
Transformation;
     Framing the Evidence Base on Rural Youth Employment and 
Livelihoods;
     Youth Perspectives: Challenges and Opportunities in the 
Agricultural and Food Sectors;
     Youth Productivity: Technology, Mechanization, and Global 
Value Chains;
     Gender Considerations and Youth Employment;
     Research, Learning and USAID Programming: The Role of U.S. 
University Research Partners in Generating Evidence.
    The meeting will be chaired by Dr. Brady Deaton, Acting BIFAD Chair 
and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Missouri. Expert speakers 
include Dr. Louise Fox, USAID Chief Economist and Dr. David Tschirley, 
Food Security Group Co-Director, Michigan State University.
    At 4:15 p.m. ET, Acting Chairman Deaton will moderate a half-hour 
public comment period. At 5:00 p.m., Dr. Deaton will make closing 
remarks and adjourn the public meeting.
    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,

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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.
[FR Doc. 2018-07966 Filed 4-16-18; 8:45 am]
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