naaan.csusystem.eduNorth American Agricultural Advisory Network

the NAAAN Who we are What we do Resources News and Events Latest News Calendar CONNECT with the Community Menu About the NAAAN Who we are What we do Resources News and Events Latest News Calendar CONNECT with the Community The (NAAAN) promotes engagement among Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. agricultural and rural development advisory services and their counterparts worldwide. Mission Statement The NAAAN is a North American platform among advisory services organizations, including government extension services, promoting and supporting innovation, knowledge utilization, and information sharing across rural and urban landscapes in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. NAAAN shares North American best practices and facilitates learning from global best practices. A COMMUNITY OF PRACTITIONERS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA The NAAAN CONNECT community is a place for extension and rural advisory services experts, practitioners, researchers, and those interested in agriculture across Canada, Mexico, and the United States to engage with one another. NAAAN CONNECT is free to join ! NAAAN MAPPING STUDY AND REPORT The NAAAN, in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture, published a report titled Feeding North America through Agricultural Extension: A Report from the (NAAAN)” in the Fall of 2022. This publication includes a history of extension in North America and information gathered in the 2021 NAAAN survey of over 500 participants in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The report will inform future NAAAN programming and the work we will do collectively across the three countries. NAAAN Report (English) NAAAN Report (Spanish) NAAAN Report (French) OUR ROOTS NAAAN is an affiliate of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) based on broad consultation with: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Key agricultural stakeholders in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. PARTNER WITH US The NAAAN focuses on information sharing and welcomes partners to: Build upon existing extension and advisory best practices Provide a forum for discussion of agricultural extension Build and expand relationships with shared learning and programming Expand opportunities for extension practitioners and stakeholders to have more exposure to the richness and diversity of the North American experience Accelerate information sharing in a changing environment for food production and security To get involved, e-mail NAAAN at naaaninfo@colostate.edu . NAAAN PARTNERS Join the newsletter Download the brief Email the NAAAN Amy Scanes-Wolfe Amy Scanes-Wolfe first became interested in food systems after studying cultural anthropology at Middlebury College in Vermont. After 5 years of market farming on the East Coast, Amy became deeply interested in permaculture–farming in a way more closely modelled after natural ecosystems. From that point onward, Amy joined the board of a forming ecovillage, gave tours at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, worked at Harlequins Garden Sustainable Nursery and with Boulder County Parks and Open Space, and ran her own ecological landscaping business. Currently, Amy is the Director of Community Outreach with Drylands Agroecology Research, manages a 1.5 acre homestead in Niwot, and is the lead organizer and teacher with Boulder Permaculture. Salvador Fernández Rivera Salvador Fernandez-Rivera works for Mexico´s Ministry of Agriculture, where he oversees policies on rural development and agricultural science and technology. After earning a Ph. D. in Animal Science in 1987 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in USA, he taught at the University of Chapingo in Mexico. From 1991 to 2007 he worked as scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), a center of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system. In ILRI he conducted and led research on the role of livestock in nutrient cycling and the improvement of food-feed crops in crop-livestock systems. He also coordinated a research program to sustainably improve the productivity of crop-livestock systems in countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. From 2007 to 2014 he served as Coordinator of Research, Innovation and Outreach of Mexico’s National Forestry, Crops and Livestock Research Institute. From 2014 to 2018, at the Interamerican Institute for Technical Cooperation on Agriculture, he led the technical cooperation among IICA’s 34 country members on issues related to family farming, inclusion, sustainability, resilience and competitiveness. Currently, at the Ministry of Agriculture, he leads the implementation of a rural development model based on participatory approaches, technological innovation, extension services and investments in productive and marketing assets in Mexico’s poorest family farming communities. In 2003 he was recipient of the American Society of Animal Science Bouffalt International Animal Agriculture Award. Kathleen Donohue Kathleen Donohue is the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM)/Vice-President (VP) of the International Affairs Branch (IAB), which is a joint branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), focused on international market access, trade and regulatory cooperation, while also protecting Canadian food safety and animal and plant health. Integrating CFIA and AAFC’s international functions, IAB supports the government’s trade agenda, and industry, in maintaining and advancing new markets for Canadian products. Kathleen brings extensive experience to her current position, having previously held the positions of Director General of the Market Access Secretariat (MAS), AAFC and Executive Director, Market Access Coordination, MAS at AAFC, as well as having served overseas as Counsellor (Agriculture) at the High Commission of Canada to India and as Counsellor (Commercial) and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Embassy of Canada to Japan. Prior to serving abroad, Kathleen worked in various executive positions at AAFC, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) focused on advancing Canada’s trade, investment and innovation agenda. Born in Montréal, Kathleen holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Concordia University and is a graduate of the School of Community and Public Affairs.‎ Monty Dozier Dozier offers thirty-five years of public service experience on the county and state level with a demonstrated successful history of working in cooperative extension and higher education. His skills include strategic planning, public speaking, leadership, community outreach, emergency management and public relations. Prior to his current position, Dozier served on the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas in the wake of Hurricane Ike, for which he received formal recognition from Chancellor John Sharp of The Texas A&M University System. He has co-written eleven journal articles, six Texas AgriLife Research technical publications and thirty-six peer-reviewed AgriLife Extension educational publications. He has written or co-written fifty abstracts for oral and poster papers presented at industry and association meetings and conferences, 246 project reports, and one International Agriculture Extension Outreach training manual. Dozier received a doctoral degree from Texas A&M. Julia Edwards Julia is a National Ambassador for MANRRS and a junior at Utah State University. She’s pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems with a minor in Data Analytics and is passionate about operations management, data analytics, supply chain, and sustainability. At Utah State, she serves as the Secretary for the MANRRS chapter and is the Vice...