[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 41 (Friday, March 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13855-13856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04746]


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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 the public meeting of the Board for International Food and 
Agricultural Development (BIFAD). The meeting will be held from 8:30 
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on March 15, 2013 at the University of Missouri 
Reynolds Journalism Institute, S. 9th Street, Columbia, MO 65201. The 
central theme of this meeting will center on ``Globalization of 
agriculture and food research at land-grant universities: BIFAD public 
meeting at University of Missouri.''
    Dr. Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair and Chancellor of the University of 
Missouri at Columbia, will preside over the meeting.
    The public meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. with opening 
remarks by BIFAD Chair Brady Deaton. The Board will address both old 
and new business during this time and hear updates from USAID, 
including reports on outreach visits by three BIFAD members. USAID will 
provide updates on the Higher Education Solutions Network and the 
Bureau for Food Security Feed the Future Food Security Innovation 
Center. This will be followed by a panel on global research priorities 
related to Sustainable Intensification and Integrated Pest Management 
as related to refinement of current USAID/BFS research focus areas and 
programmatic choices. A second panel will focus on agricultural 
research at U.S. universities in the context of global challenges. Time 
will then be allowed for public comment. Following this period, the 
Chair will adjourn the meeting.
    Those wishing to attend the meeting or obtain additional 
information about BIFAD should contact Susan Owens, Executive Director 
and Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD. 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 2.10-

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214, Washington, DC 20523-2110 or telephone her at (202) 712-0218.

Susan Owens,
USAID Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD, Bureau for Food Security, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. 2013-04746 Filed 2-28-13; 8:45 am]
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