[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 94 (Thursday, May 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 28927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10297]
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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 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), Food Security and Nutrition in the
Context of COVID-19: Impacts and Interventions. The meeting will be
held on June 4, 2020 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. EDT at http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/international-programs/bifad/bifad-meetings.html. A public comment period is scheduled from 3:10 to 3:30
p.m., EDT.
The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic will have secondary
impacts on all intermediate results of the U.S. Government Global Food
Security Strategy, including agricultural productivity, livelihoods,
markets, trade and policy actions, food consumption and nutrition,
hygiene, and resilience. The Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development (BIFAD), an advisory committee to the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), will convene a virtual
public meeting to share the thinking of leading experts in food
security and nutrition that relates to COVID-19 impacts. This will
include consideration of the most promising short-, medium-, and long-
term responses across several key areas: Farm-level productivity,
markets and trade, access to finance, nutrition, safe and hygienic food
systems, gender, and national and local policy. The meeting will
include presentations of credible modeling data about the scale and
breadth of anticipated food security impacts in the developing world
and a summary spanning near to longer-term interventions and guidance
that may help to mitigate COVID-19 impacts. The meeting will also
provide leading sources of curated information (e.g., landing pages for
information related to the crisis and response). The meeting is
intended to help to support decision making by USAID and its partners
and stakeholders working to advance food security, nutrition, and
resilience at global, regional and national levels.
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.
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 the
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.
Participants may register at http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/international-programs/bifad/bifad-meetings.html. For
questions about registration, please contact Susan Johnson at (202)
478-6023 or sjohnson@aplu.org. For questions about BIFAD, please
contact Clara Cohen, Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD in the Bureau
for Resilience and Food Security, USAID at ccohen@usaid.gov or (202)
712-0119.
Clara Cohen,
Designated Federal Officer, BIFAD.
[FR Doc. 2020-10297 Filed 5-13-20; 8:45 am]
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