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Vision of Success
Vision of Success
The minimization of emission release, toxic substance, and chemical usage, and soil degradation by using regenerative farming for sustainable food sourcing by the dairy industry.
Measures of Success
Measures of Success
Metrics of Success
Reduction of waste (emissions, disposal waste, and resources)
Increase in profits and return on investment
Cost Reduction
Formal recognition of tribal communities and improvement in quality of life
How to record and analyze metric systems
Data Analysis and comparison of previous results
Projection Analysis and simulation data to forecast future results and best/worst outcomes
Visualization and analytical models/tests
Quarterly and annual inter-organizational and public reports of sustainability and triple bottom line goal progression, CSR, and tribal recognition
Account for Resources
Account for Resources
Financial:
Monetary Investments for design, implementation, and maintenance of the project
Grants from the public sector (primarily government support)
Donations from Nonprofit and other organizations
Physical:
Machinery/equipment
Capital
Land/property
People:
Standard workforce
Suggested workforce supporting community members in need (veterans, former prisoners, troubled youth)
Specialized workforce (regenerative farming, sustainability analyst, project manager, etc.)
Partnered workforce (employees of partnered organizations)
Governance Structure
Governance Structure
Structure: Group consensus coupled with a mediator.
All stakeholders have the right to share knowledge, experience, and opinions with the group. After everyone shares their perspective, members work together with the mediator to determine the final decision that has the best possible outcome for all stakeholders.
Sector Independence
Sector Independence
Shamrock Farms has expertise in animal husbandry and its current environmental efforts. They have a vast network that serves restaurants, healthcare, educational facilities, and more, gaining financial resources and support from their consumers.
Pinnacle Prevention has the expertise of food systems within the community through advocacy work. They have strong networks with the citizens, farmers' markets, and grocery stores.
The Arizona Department of Agriculture has the expertise of knowing what an agribusiness should look like at different scales of farming. The public sector also has financial resources and grants, and an external network of 19,000+ farming and agriculture partners, and an internal governmental network.
Sponsor
Sponsor
The ideal role model to base, then expand upon, is Alexandre Family Farms in Crescent City, CA. This farm became the nation's first certified regenerative dairy earlier this year, and they managed it as a company of two. They have four farms, with a herd of 8,000 head across 9,000 acres.
Transparency
Transparency
A partnership of this scale, with numerous viewpoints and options on best practices, requires cooperation and dedication to the overall agreed vision. Without these values at the helm, the mission of creating a socially, economically, and environmentally regenerative farm on a large scale is doomed to fail. While each of the three goals has been achieved by partnerships in the past (singular efforts have been able to achieve all three), creating an exemplary agricultural system is unprecedented. As such, there will be many lessons to learn, challenges to work through, and redesigns of the system to draw as the effort moves forward. Additionally, the partners will work diligently to ensure heritage knowledge from indigenous peoples is honored and credited.
Story
Story
This collaboration between Shamrock Farms, Pinnacle Prevention, and AZDA could create an unprecedented change in Arizona.
Communication, not only the outcome and the goals, but the personal growth and redirection needed to maintain these cross-sector relationships is a key to success for this project. It provides other organizations insight as to how they may also execute a similar plan, and have the knowledge to professionally manage it.
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