APHIS Releases New Strategic Plan for 2023-2027

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.