[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-18084]


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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Notice of Meeting; Board for International Food and Agricultural 
Development

    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 9:30 
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at the Murrow/
White/Lisagor Room, 13th Floor, National Press Club, 529 14th Street 
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 and online at http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/international-programs/bifad/bifad-meetings.html.
    The central theme of this public meeting will be the new Feed the 
Future Learning Agenda which builds on the first Feed the Future 
Learning Agenda launched in 2012. Dr. Mark Keenum, BIFAD Chair, will 
preside over the public business meeting, which will begin promptly at 
9:30 a.m. EDT with opening remarks. At this meeting the Board will 
address old and new business. Old business will include an update on a 
study commissioned by BIFAD and USAID on U.S. benefits and capabilities 
leveraged from strategic USAID investments in developing country 
agriculture and food security by Dr. Joseph Glauber, Senior Research 
Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 
After this, the Board will then engage in a dialogue and provide 
feedback on the Feed the Future Learning Agenda.
    Through the Learning Agenda, the U.S. Government seeks to improve 
the effectiveness and efficiency of the Feed the Future initiative by 
generating, synthesizing, communicating and applying evidence related 
to key questions. Evidence from the Learning Agenda will inform the 
design of Feed the Future-related strategies, programs, projects and 
activities. The Learning Agenda will also serve to address requirements 
laid out in section 8(a)(14) of the Global Food Security Act on sharing 
lessons learned from implementation of the Global Food Security 
Strategy.
    This Feed the Future Learning Agenda will focus on eight areas: (1) 
Gender and women's empowerment, (2) Market systems, (3) Policy systems, 
(4) Nutrition, (5) Risk and resilience, (6) Youth, (7) Water and Water 
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and (8) Scaling technologies and 
practices. These areas reflect work and research being carried out 
under the Feed the Future initiative. Analytical outputs from the work 
in these areas will feed into the answering Learning Agenda questions. 
BIFAD is taking this opportunity to welcome public input on these focus 
areas, the types of questions to be examined, and research under way 
that might help contribute.
    Beginning at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Chairman Keenum will moderate a half-
hour public comment period. The public meeting will adjourn at 1:00 
p.m. EDT with Dr. Keenum's closing remarks.
    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. 2018-18084 Filed 8-21-18; 8:45 am]
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