Development of the Strategic Visionand

Where We Go From Here?

Dan DooleyVice 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 futuretrend/demands/issues

Sept-Nov Working Groups identify future trends, demand, issues; Tucker conducts surveys

December 1 Working Group whitepapers completed;

Dec-Jan Program Council reviews whitepapers; draft ANR Vision

Jan 2009 Steering Committee reviewed and refined draft Vision

ANR Vision process

Feb – March 2009 Internal and external stakeholder input

April Stakeholder input reviewed and incorporated into new strategic vision

April Steering Committee, PC, and EC “bless”

April 27-30 ANR Statewide Conference: Strategic Vision presented to ANR members and work begins

on development of implementation plan

July 2009 Presentation 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 theenvironment…’

‘need to tie nutrition with local farms and need to tie nutrition to agriculture’

‘Where are our coasts, forestsand 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…

Populationgrowth

• 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 ideaspresented 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 additionto 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