Development of the Strategic Vision and Where We Go From Here? Dan Dooley Vice President

Process used to develop our vision Summarize some of the challenges Our vision for California Describe our vision for ANR Outline our next steps at this conference Outline

Development of the Vision… August 2008 Steering Committee agreed on planning process August Five Working Groups appointed to identify future trend/demands/issues Sept-NovWorking Groups identify future trends, demand, issues; Tucker conducts surveys December 1 Working Group whitepapers completed; Dec-JanProgram Council reviews whitepapers; draft ANR Vision Jan 2009 Steering Committee reviewed and refined draft Vision

ANR Vision process Feb – March 2009Internal and external stakeholder input AprilStakeholder input reviewed and incorporated into new strategic vision April Steering Committee, PC, and EC “bless” April ANR Statewide Conference: Strategic Vision presented to ANR members and work begins on development of implementation plan July 2009Presentation of Strategic Vision to UC Regents

Kinds and number of comments 175 individual respondents ~115 advisors ~37 colleges ~22 external +20 group responses - mostly campus faculty - specialists

Range of comments ‘need land use planning as relates to changing landscape and demographics’ ‘too ag focused OR not enough ag focused’ ‘not near enough focus on natural resources and the environment…’ ‘need to tie nutrition with local farms and need to tie nutrition to agriculture’ ‘Where are our coasts, forests and ecosystem services?’ We need to focus on what we do well today…

New variety of strawberries, citrus, grapes… Increased milk production.. Improved water efficiency, reduced pesticide use Tools to predict and manage wildfires… Science literacy and youth development programs… Nutrition education activities Clearly the Division has made a difference to California

But the challenges facing California are daunting… Population growth

Land use changes

Climate change

Need sustainable, safe food supply Clean and secure water and energy Resilient natural and human communities Sustainable ecosystem services Capacity to change where crops and animal products are produced Enhanced opportunities for youth engagement New innovations and new solutions…

So the Vision proposes 9 strategic initiatives as a start… –The initiatives are multidisciplinary, integrated ideas that represent the best opportunities for our considerable infrastructure and talent to seek new resources and new ways of partnering…

Clean and secure water Competitive, sustainable food systems Science literacy Healthy, sustainable natural ecosystems Healthy people and agricultural economy Healthy families and communities Safe and secure food supplies Fewer endemic and invasive pests and diseases Energy security and green technologies

Tomorrow morning you will start to generate the ideas on how we can best implement the Strategic Vision –3 sessions ( your name tag lets you know where to go ) –Beginning of the implementation plan, the roadmap for our future –It’s only the start –Need to think out of the box, at all scales –Everything generated in the sessions will be carried forward

On Thursday morning Talk about the range of ideas presented at the conference Talk about next steps to engage all of the Division as well as our external stakeholders

Strategic Plan Road map to the future

Many exciting events at the conference in addition to the implementation plan sessions Advocacy training sessions Concurrent sessions on 4H SET, biofuels, sustainable food systems, water among many others Two excellent receptions, tonight and tomorrow Excellent opportunities to network