80 FR 55826 - Meeting: Board for International Food and Agricultural Development

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 180 (September 17, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 180 (Thursday, September 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 55826]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-23418]


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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 180 / Thursday, September 17, 2015 / 
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 AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


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 8:30 
a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 in the South Ballroom 
of the Memorial Union at Purdue University, 101 N Grant St, West 
Lafayette, Indiana. The meeting will be streamed live on the Internet. 
The link to the global live stream is on BIFAD's home page: http://www.usaid.gov/bifad.
    The central theme of this public meeting will be Crossroads: 
Science, Innovation, Markets, and Policy for Feeding the World. Dr. 
Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair, will preside over the public business 
meeting, which will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. EDT with opening 
remarks. At this meeting, the Board will address old and new business 
and hear updates from USAID, the university community, and other 
experts on climate-smart agriculture, plant sciences and the role of 
various constituents in feeding the world's population.
    Starting at 9 a.m., Dr. Waded Cruzado, BIFAD Board Member will 
present the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence which recognizes 
individual researchers and/or a team of researchers for significant 
achievements in work performed through USAID's Feed the Future 
Innovation Labs.
    Starting at 9:30 a.m., BIFAD will hear from the first panel hosted 
by Dr. Jeffrey Dukes, Director of the Purdue Climate Change Research 
Center and Professor of Forestry & Natural Resources and Biological 
Sciences. Dr. Thomas Hertel, Distinguished Professor of Agriculture 
will moderate the panel titled Climate-Smart Agriculture--Closing the 
Yield Gap in a Changing Climate. Presenters for this panel are Dr. 
Mitch Tuinstra, Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics and Wickersham 
Chair; Dr. Linda Prokopy, Associate Professor, Natural Resource 
Science; and an additional panelist to be determined. The panel will 
conclude with a 15 minute comment period.
    Starting at 11:15 a.m., Dr. Karen Plaut, Senior Associate Dean for 
Research and Faculty Affairs, will moderate a panel on Plant Sciences 
Research and Education Pipeline. Presenters for this panel are Dr. 
Melba Crawford, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research; Dr. Katy 
Rainey, Assistant Professor of Agronomy; and Dr. Jian Kang Zhu, 
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology. This panel will conclude with 
a 15 minute comment period.
    Starting at 2:15 p.m., Dr. Jay Akridge, Glen W. Sample Dean of 
Agriculture, will moderate a panel on US Ag Industry's Role in Feeding 
the World. Presenters for this panel are Ted McKinney, Director of the 
Indiana State Department of Agriculture; and Jim Moseley, a local 
farmer.
    At 3:30 p.m., Chairman Deaton will moderate a half-hour public 
comment period. At 4 p.m. EDT Dr. Deaton, will make closing remarks and 
adjourn the public meeting. At 4 p.m., after the meeting has been 
adjourned, BIFAD and members of the public are invited to view the 
Purdue University poster display.
    Those wishing to attend the meeting or obtain additional 
information about BIFAD should contact Susan Owens, Executive Director 
and 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., Room 2.09-067, 
Washington, DC, 20523-2110 or telephone her at (202) 712-0218.

Susan Owens,
Executive Director and USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, 
Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. 2015-23418 Filed 9-16-15; 8:45 am]
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