Core Value: The sustainability and well-being of all aspects of agriculture and those communities that support agriculture.
Core Purpose: To preserve resources, to achieve the best environment possible, to produce the highest quality of product, and to maximize
quality of life.
Audacious Goals:
- Inclusivity: To include communities, ethnicity, gender, age, biodiversity, food, fiber, and fuel.
- Holistic: To use a “systems-approach” in decision making, resource utilization, and management.
- To have all farmers, ranchers, practitioners, and agricultural businesses committed to sustainable agriculture.
Action Points:
- Create relationships among people, communities, and government and non-government institutions (develop friendships that create partnerships that accomplish our goals).
- Support education for all participants, for all ages, and with a specific focus on accomplishing our goals.
- Evaluate results of past and present programs with regard to intent, outcome, impacts, and reasons for their degree of success or failure.
- Improve the use of SARE resources through goal orientation and restructured and/or better focused calls for proposals (e.g., more emphasis on holistic approaches, resource preservation, quality foods systems, and a community component).