The California State University Agricultural Research Initiative

The California State University Agricultural Research Initiative (ARI) is a diverse and comprehensive applied agricultural and environmental research program that leverages public funding with existing university and industry capital and intellectual collateral through collaborative university-industry partnerships, in order to focus on finding solutions for priority issues challenging California agriculture and the environment.

Specifically, the ARI is a California State University System (CSU) multi-campus diversified applied agricultural and environmental sciences collaborative research consortium between the CSU’s four university campuses having colleges of agriculture: California State University, Fresno (Fresno State); California Polytechnic State University, Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO); California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly, Pomona); and California State University, Chico (Chico State). In addition to member campus collaborations, the ARI also encourages and facilitates strong CSU collaborative research partnerships with other qualified university and professional research organization faculty and research scientists such as those from the University of California (US), UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Significant CSU, UC, USDA, and industry collaboration is realized through the university-industry partnerships that characterize ARI projects. The ARI is administered by the California Agricultural Technology Institute (CATI), located at California State University, Fresno.