Welcome to Ag Futures Alliance The Ag Futures Alliance ( AFA ) is a county-based collaboration between farmers, ranchers, farm-workers, conservationists, and civic leaders who share a desire to build a vibrant, healthy, and durable food system. The first Ag Futures Alliance was started in 2000 in Ventura County, California when leaders in the farming community decided to engage farming critics in process of sharing views, trust-building, and ultimately identification of common ground. In the years since the founding of the AFA movement, new alliances have been formed in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Yolo Counties. Ag Innovations Network ( AIN ) is proud to be the sponsor and facilitator of the pioneering Ventura AFA and the AFA project. Our goal is to create a network of AFA s across the state of California that ultimately can link efforts to more effectively improve local, state and federal policies that impact agriculture, the food system, and the environment.