APHIS Releases New Strategic Plan for 2023-2027
April 25, 2023 —
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a new 5-year strategic plan. It incorporates input we received from stakeholders on the strategic framework--a summarized version of the plan that we published in June 2022. The plan includes six strategic goals.
They focus on:
- Protecting agriculture from plant and animal diseases and pests;
- Positioning the Agency's workforce to better meet current and future challenges;
- Delivering solutions that reduce the impacts of zoonotic and emerging diseases, and ecosystem changes, such as climate change;
- Expanding safe trade;
- Managing wildlife diseases; and
- Promoting the welfare of animals.
APHIS also released a strategic foresight report. It examines 10 societal, environmental, and technological trends and several future scenarios that the Agency must be prepared to navigate.
They include:
- Rise in security threats.
- Escalation of climate change threats.
- Political, geographical, and economic division.
- Increasing dependence on data analytics.
- Advances in science and technology.
- Changes in production practices.
- Evolving perceptions around animal welfare and wildlife in human society.
- Globalization.
- Rising global health threats.
- The changing federal workforce.
The strategic plan and foresight report are available on the APHIS website at: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/banner/aboutaphis/SA_Overview
[Source: USDA APHIS 25 April 2023]
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