Summary
Integrated
agricultural intelligence (agri-intelligence) is a specific field
of intelligence dedicated to an enhanced understanding and proactive
recognition of the threats and risks to national security associated
with a broadly defined agriculture. It recognises the clear linkages
between different fields including public health, safety and security;
food safety and security, environmental security and economic security.
Integrated agricultural intelligence is needed because of the rapid
rate of change in society today, including but not limited to science
and technology, the interconnectedness of the mandates of different
sectors and the fact that agriculture is vulnerable from many perspectives.
Integrated agricultural intelligence combines inputs from a diverse
and broad spectrum of disciplines and organisations and promotes not
only an exchange of information but an analysis of this information.
This analysis provides a mechanism to proactively anticipate threats,
an enhanced and heightened understanding of these threats, more informed
policy development and superior operational outcomes.
Keywords
Agri-intelligence,
Agriculture, Animal disposal, Animal health, Environmental health,
Food safety, Food security, Integration, Intelligence, Plant health,
Public health.
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