[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 7265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-02423]
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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 a public meeting of the Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development (BIFAD), Agricultural Growth, Structural
Transformation, and the Journey to Self-Reliance: Implications for
USAID Programming. The meeting will be held on March 25, 2020 from 9:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT in Washington, DC at the National Press Club,
Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20045. A public comment
period is scheduled from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m., EDT: The meeting will be
livestreamed and accessible at http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/international-programs/bifad/bifad-meetings.html.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is
reorienting its strategies, partnership models, and program practices
to achieve greater development outcomes and strive toward a future
where foreign assistance is no longer necessary. The approach, outlined
in the Agency's new Policy Framework, emphasizes the concept of ``self-
reliance''--defined as the capacity and commitment of a country to
plan, finance, and implement solutions to solve its own development
challenges in an effective, inclusive, and accountable way. Empowering
host country governments and partners to achieve locally sustainable
results, helping countries mobilize public and private resources,
strengthening local capacities, and accelerating enterprise-driven
development are part of a strategy that prioritizes enduring
partnerships and fosters stable, resilient, and prosperous countries.
In the food and agricultural sectors, accelerating productivity
growth is understood to be a central factor underpinning inclusive
development, poverty reduction, and the structural transformation of
economies--how underdeveloped and agrarian-based countries shift from
subsistence agriculture to a commercially oriented economy with diverse
agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors. Recent evidence shows
that growth in the agriculture sector is more effective at reducing
poverty than growth in other sectors, especially in low-income
countries where USAID works.
The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development
(BIFAD), an advisory committee to USAID, will convene a public meeting
seeking to better understand the concept of structural transformation,
how raising the total productivity of resources in agriculture
stimulates this transformation, and how this in turn contributes to
countries' progression toward self-reliance. The meeting will hear from
experts on some emerging success stories in agricultural and structural
transformation, distill lessons and identify knowledge gaps from these
experiences, and identify implications of this evidence for USAID's
priorities for development and social safety net programming
investments for agriculture and food security.
On the basis of testimony, including public comments, shared at the
meeting, BIFAD will provide formal findings, conclusions, and
recommendations to the Agency on best-bet operational and programmatic
investments for catalyzing agricultural productivity and structural
transformation.
BIFAD is a seven-member, presidentially appointed advisory board to
USAID established in 1975 under Title XII of the Foreign Assistance
Act, as amended. The provisions of Title XII concern bringing assets of
U.S. universities to bear on development challenges in agriculture and
food security, and the BIFAD's role is to help carry out this function.
For questions about registration, please contact Susan Johnson at
(202) 478-6023. For questions about BIFAD, please 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, email
her at [email protected], or telephone her at (202) 712-0119.
Clara Cohen,
Designated Federal Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-02423 Filed 2-6-20; 8:45 am]
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