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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.

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