[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 151 (Monday, August 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2022-16884]


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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Notice of Meeting of the Board for International Food and 
Agricultural Development and Request for Public Comment

AGENCY: Agency for International Development.

ACTION: Notice.

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    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), A Consultative Workshop on Systemic 
Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Food Systems, to announce upcoming BIFAD work in the 
areas of climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural, 
nutrition, and food systems and to seek public input into priorities 
and evidence gathering. The virtual meeting will be held on August 31, 
2022 from 10:30 to 12:30 EDT online. The meeting will be livestreamed 
via Zoom (registration required) and accessible at the following link: 
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bifad/739381.
    The meeting will publicly introduce the BIFAD Subcommittee on 
Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, recently established by BIFAD 
and USAID to lead transdisciplinary evidence gathering to support 
USAID's role in accelerating systems change and transformative climate 
change adaptation and mitigation approaches in agriculture, food 
systems and nutrition, and in targeting climate finance to benefit 
smallholder farmers. A list of subcommittee members may be found at 
this link. The objectives, questions, and proposed methodology of a 
planned BIFAD-commissioned climate change study, to be guided by the 
subcommittee, will be shared and discussed.
    The meeting will include a public question and answer period and 
facilitated small group discussions. Public input is sought to: (1) 
identify leverage points across agricultural, food, and nutrition 
systems (e.g., financial, production, innovation, market, nutrition, 
risk management, early warning, and humanitarian systems) for 
transformative change and scaling climate finance to achieve the 
targets and intermediate results of the USAID Climate Strategy, 2022-
2030 and the U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy 2022-2026; 
(2) identify related systems that support transformational change in 
capacities and institutional constraints; and (3) prioritize areas of 
USAID action areas to facilitate transformative systemic change that is 
inclusive of underrepresented populations and promotes gender equity 
and equality. The public is also invited to comment on the 
subcommittee's work and to submit names of experts, case studies, 
evidence, and relevant publications to inform the study.
    The BIFAD is a seven-member, presidentially appointed advisory 
board to the US. Agency for International Development (USAID) 
established in 1975 under Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act, as 
amended, to ensure that USAID brings the assets of U.S. universities to 
bear on development challenges in agriculture and food security and 
supports their representation in USAID programming. Public comment is 
invited to further inform BIFAD's work.
    For questions about registration, please contact Carol Chan at 
[email protected]. For questions about BIFAD, or to submit 
written comments, evidence, or materials in advance or following the 
meeting, please contact Clara Cohen, Designated Federal Officer for 
BIFAD in the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security at USAID. 
Interested persons may email her at [email protected] or telephone her 
at (202) 712-0119.

Clara Cohen,
Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD.
[FR Doc. 2022-16884 Filed 8-5-22; 8:45 am]
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