[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-07968]


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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 Wednesday, May 9, 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 Resilience 
Measurement and Analysis. 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, including the presentation of the BIFAD 
Award for Scientific Excellence in an Innovation Lab. The purpose of 
this meeting is to share knowledge about theoretical and applied 
frameworks for resilience measurement and analysis and to identify 
opportunities to leverage U.S. university research capabilities to 
support resilience measurement and analysis. This event responds to 
priorities identified during the BIFAD meeting at the 2017 World Food 
Prize and the 2017 USAID Resilience Evidence Summit.
    The meeting will be chaired by Dr. Brady Deaton, Acting BIFAD Chair 
and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Missouri. The meeting will 
feature thought leaders on resilience measurement and analysis from 
USAID, academia and the practitioner community. Speakers include Dr. 
Greg Collins, Director of USAID's Center for Resilience and Dr. Mark 
Constas, Associate Professor at Cornell University, and Chair of the 
Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Measurement Technical Working 
Group.
    At 4:00 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, 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. 2018-07968 Filed 4-16-18; 8:45 am]
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