83 FR 16823 - Board for International Food and Agricultural Development; Notice of Meeting
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 74 (April 17, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 74 (April 17, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-07968 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)] [Notices] [Page 16823] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-07968] ======================================================================== Notices Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section. ======================================================================== Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 74 / Tuesday, April 17, 2018 / Notices [[Page 16823]] 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] BILLING CODE P
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER community. Speakers include Dr. Greg Board will address old and new
contains documents other than rules or Collins, Director of USAID’s Center for business and hear updates from USAID
proposed rules that are applicable to the Resilience and Dr. Mark Constas, and the university community. The
public. Notices of hearings and investigations, Associate Professor at Cornell purpose of the meeting is to develop a
committee meetings, agency decisions and University, and Chair of the Food and shared understanding of rural labor
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of
Nutrition Security Resilience markets and youth-specific constraints,
petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are Measurement Technical Working discuss the evidence base on programs
examples of documents appearing in this Group. that aim to improve rural youth
section. At 4:00 p.m. ET, Acting Chairman employment and livelihoods, outline
Deaton will moderate a half-hour public cross-sectoral opportunities to support
comment period. At 5:00 p.m., Dr. and empower youth to take advantage of
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL Deaton will make closing remarks and agricultural system market
DEVELOPMENT adjourn the public meeting. opportunities, and identify knowledge
Those wishing to attend the meeting gaps on which U.S. university research
Board for International Food and or obtain additional information about partners can generate evidence to
Agricultural Development; Notice of BIFAD should contact Clara Cohen, address.
Meeting Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD in
the Bureau for Food Security at USAID. Following the opening remarks, the
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Interested persons may write to her in meeting will feature experts as well as
Committee Act, notice is hereby given of care of the U.S. Agency for International panel discussions on the following
the public meeting of the Board for Development, Ronald Reagan Building, topics:
International Food and Agricultural Bureau for Food Security, 1300 • A Conceptual Framework on Youth
Development (BIFAD). The meeting will Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, and Agricultural Transformation;
be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET DC, 20523–2110 or telephone her at
on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at the • Framing the Evidence Base on Rural
(202) 712–0119. Youth Employment and Livelihoods;
Rotunda, Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, 1300 Clara Cohen, • Youth Perspectives: Challenges and
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD, Bureau Opportunities in the Agricultural and
DC. Participants may attend in person or for Food Security, U.S. Agency for Food Sectors;
join via livestream. The link to the International Development.
• Youth Productivity: Technology,
global live stream as well as registration [FR Doc. 2018–07968 Filed 4–16–18; 8:45 am]
Mechanization, and Global Value
information can be found on BIFAD’s BILLING CODE P
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home page: http://www.usaid.gov/bifad.
The central theme of this public • Gender Considerations and Youth
meeting will be Resilience Measurement AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL Employment;
and Analysis. Dr. Brady Deaton, Acting DEVELOPMENT • Research, Learning and USAID
BIFAD Chair, will preside over the Programming: The Role of U.S.
public business meeting, which will Board for International Food and University Research Partners in
begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. ET with Agricultural Development; Notice of Generating Evidence.
opening remarks. At this meeting, the Meeting
The meeting will be chaired by Dr.
Board will address old and new Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Brady Deaton, Acting BIFAD Chair and
business, including the presentation of Committee Act, notice is hereby given of Chancellor Emeritus of the University of
the BIFAD Award for Scientific the public meeting of the Board for Missouri. Expert speakers include Dr.
Excellence in an Innovation Lab. The International Food and Agricultural Louise Fox, USAID Chief Economist and
purpose of this meeting is to share Development (BIFAD). The meeting will Dr. David Tschirley, Food Security
knowledge about theoretical and be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET Group Co-Director, Michigan State
applied frameworks for resilience on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at the University.
measurement and analysis and to Rotunda, Ronald Reagan Building and
identify opportunities to leverage U.S. International Trade Center, 1300 At 4:15 p.m. ET, Acting Chairman
university research capabilities to Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, Deaton will moderate a half-hour public
support resilience measurement and DC. Participants may attend in person or comment period. At 5:00 p.m., Dr.
analysis. This event responds to join via livestream. The link to the Deaton will make closing remarks and
priorities identified during the BIFAD global live stream as well as registration adjourn the public meeting.
meeting at the 2017 World Food Prize information can be found on BIFAD’s Those wishing to attend the meeting
and the 2017 USAID Resilience home page: http://www.usaid.gov/bifad. or obtain additional information about
Evidence Summit. The central theme of this public BIFAD should contact Clara Cohen,
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The meeting will be chaired by Dr. meeting will be Building an Evidence Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD in
Brady Deaton, Acting BIFAD Chair and Base on Rural Youth Employment and the Bureau for Food Security at USAID.
Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Livelihoods. Dr. Brady Deaton, Acting Interested persons may write to her in
Missouri. The meeting will feature BIFAD Chair, will preside over the care of the U.S. Agency for International
thought leaders on resilience public business meeting, which will Development, Ronald Reagan Building,
measurement and analysis from USAID, begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. ET with Bureau for Food Security, 1300
academia and the practitioner opening remarks. At this meeting, the Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,
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