FACA Committee Purpose & Justification
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Fiscal Year:2011 Committee Type: Scientific Technical Program Advisory Board
Board for International Food and Agricultural Development
AID
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[ Federated Name : (urn:www.usaid.gov:agency:148:committee:1053:) ]
[ Agency Name : (Agency for International Development) ]
[ Agency Acronym : (AID) ]
[ Agency Domain : (www.usaid.gov) ]
[ Agency Web Site : (http://www.usaid.gov/index.html) ]
[ Committee Name : (Board for International Food and Agricultural Development) ]
[ Committee Type : (Scientific Technical Program Advisory Board) ]
[ Committee Web Site : (http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/agriculture/bifad/index.html) ]
[ Goal? : (yes) ]
[ Vision? : (yes) ]
[ Mission? : (yes) ]
Agency for International Development
http://www.usaid.gov/index.html http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/agriculture/bifad/index.html
The membership is drawn from US public universities,US agro-industry and non-profit organizations concerned with international agricultural development.
The committee (BIFAD) assists USAID in the administration of programs authorized by Title XII. More specifically, this includes participating in the planning, development and implementation of, initiating recommendations for, and monitoring of the Section 297 program components of Title XII through U.S. public universities and their public/private partners. Title XII Section 297 activities support agricultural development in developing countries by: 1) building institutional capacity and human resource skills, 2)providing long-term U.S. university program support for global collaborative research and learning, 3) involving U.S. universities more fully in the international network of agricultural science, and 4) providing program support for international agricultural research centers, special research problems and national research systems. The BIFAD members focus on higher level strategic oriented issues and the BIFAD subordinate units focus of operational planning and implementation issues. All BIFAD activities are coordinated through the BIFAD secretariat located in the USAID Office of Development Partners. To facilitate BIFAD's access to U.S. public university and college expertise, the BIFAD secretariat collaborates closely with the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). The BIFAD Secretariat draws upon other U.S. agency expertise as appropriate.
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Title XII food and agricultural development programs implemented through U.S. public universities and colleges represent an important segment of the U.S. Feed the Future (FtF) strategic food security programming. BIFAD provides recomendations on Title XII aspects of the FtF. BIFAD also coordinates more full and robust utilization of U.S. public university and colleges and their private/public partners to address agricultural development challenges facing the developing countries under FtF.
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BIFAD is legislatively mandated to provide USAID a unique point of access and strategic cooperation with U.S. state and local public universities and colleges that are implementing their own international agricultural development programs based on domestic regional, state and local security and economic prosperity imperatives. BIFAD coordination not only provides USAID systematic access to the top level scientific, technical and institutional expertise to address critical international food, climate and agriculture developments but it also enables USAID to lead a truly "whole of U.S. government" response to global food security by enlisting the support of not only our federal government partners but our state and local governemnts partners as well.
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Gannon (J.)
Dick
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