Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) | Newfoundland and Labrador

Description

The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership is a five-year, $3.5 billion initiative that aims to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation, and resiliency of Canada’s agriculture, agrifood and agri‐based products sector. Newfoundland and Labrador’s agriculture sector will have access to nearly $43 million in cost-shared federal-provincial funding.

Key priorities focus on:

• Climate Change and Environment: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
• Science, Research, and Innovation: Supporting science and innovation, and creating opportunities to improve long-term sustainability, resiliency, and competitiveness in the provincial agriculture sector.
• Market Development and Trade: Supporting expansion of domestic and international market development opportunities, and meeting the evolving challenges of an interconnected, globalized marketplace.
• Building Sector Capacity, Growth and Competitiveness: Supporting economic growth, driving domestic market and export activity, and enhancing food self-sufficiency and local food capacity.
• Resiliency and Public Trust: Supporting the sector as it continues to face significant risks, and building public trust in the province’s agriculture sector.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s program initiatives aim to:

• Improve environmental performance, adapt to climate change, and reduce GHG emissions;
• Support innovation, secondary processing, and public trust;
• Promote marketing and sector growth; and
• Enhance sector resiliency, diversity, equity and inclusion.

Sustainable CAP builds on the success of the previous five-year Canadian Agricultural Partnership (2018-2023), which funded more than 700 agricultural initiatives in the province.