Development of the Strategic Vision and Where We Go From Here?

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

3. Outline • 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

4. Development of the Vision… August 2008 Steering Committee agreed on planning process August Five Working Groups appointed to identify future trend/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

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

9. But the challenges facing California are daunting… Population growth

10. Land use changes

11. Climate change

12. 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…

13. 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…

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Road map to the future Strategic Plan

18. 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