Agricultural programs and services
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) programs and services support innovation, sustainable farming, business development, risk management, trade and market development.
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Use the table below to search all agricultural programs and services. You can filter the listing by audience, theme and programs currently accepting applications.
Note: All programs and services are available to Youth (18-35 years of age) and Indigenous Peoples and organizations.
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Program/Service | What this program or service offers | What is this for | Who are you | Accepting applications | Indigenous Peoples and organizations only | Youth only | Canadian Agricultural Partnership program | Keywords |
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Advance Payments Program | Provides low-interest cash advances on the value of eligible agricultural products, which must be repaid as the products are sold. |
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Available - Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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AgPal – program and service finder | Web based tool to assist those looking for federal, provincial, and territorial agricultural programs and services that applies to their needs. |
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Available - Yes | Indigenous Youth |
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Agri-Food Trade Services for Exporters | Helps food industry and businesses reach international markets. |
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Available - Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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AgriAssurance Program: National Industry Association Component | Funds industry, at the national level, to develop, verify, and integrate assurance systems to address market and regulatory requirements. |
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Yes | Yes | community, charity CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriAssurance Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Component | Helps implement assurance projects that address market and regulatory requirements. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriCompetitiveness Program | Helps leverage, coordinate and build on existing capacity, share best practices, provide mentorship opportunities, agriculture awareness, farm business management, and farm safety information and tools. |
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Yes | Yes | community charity CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriCommunication Program | Supports recognition of Canadian efforts and appreciation of Canadian agriculture |
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Yes | No | food policy Indigenous, Youth |
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Agricultural Clean Technology Program: Adoption Stream | Funds the purchase and installation of commercially available clean technologies and processes. |
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No | No | ACT PTPA Indigenous Youth |
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Agricultural Clean Technology Program: Research and Innovation Stream | Funds pre-market innovation, including research, development, demonstration and commercialization activities. |
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Yes | No | ACT R&I PTPA Indigenous Youth |
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Agricultural Climate Solutions - Living Labs | Provides support to co-develop, test and enable adoption of technologies and practices, including beneficial management practices, that sequester carbon and/or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Yes | No | ACS BMP GHG SAC Indigenous Youth |
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Agricultural Climate Solutions - On-Farm Climate Action Fund | Supports farmers in adopting beneficial management practices that store carbon and reduce greenhouse gases, specifically in the areas of nitrogen management, cover cropping and rotational grazing practices. |
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No | No | ACS BMP GHG SAC Indigenous Youth |
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AgriDiversity Program | Supports activities that help the sector better leverage the potential of youth, women, Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriInnovate Program | Provides repayable contributions for projects that aim to accelerate the demonstration, commercialization, and/or adoption of innovative products, technologies, processes or services that increase agri-sector competitiveness and sustainability. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriInsurance | Provides cost-shared insurance for natural hazards. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriInvest | Helps manage risk and small farming income declines. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriMarketing Program | Provides support to increase and diversify exports to international markets and seize domestic market opportunities through industry-led promotional activities that differentiate Canadian products and producers, and leverage Canada's reputation for high quality and safe food. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriRecovery | Disaster relief framework, disaster event assessments, development of initiatives. |
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Available Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriRisk Initiatives - Administrative Capacity Building Stream | Provides funding for building the administrative capacity for the delivery of new risk management tools. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriRisk Initiatives - Microgrants | Supports academic research proposals concerning the development and improvement of alternative risk management tools. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriRisk Initiatives - Research and Development Contribution Funding Stream | Funds development of new risk management tools. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriScience Program - Projects | Funds pre-commercial research and development projects that benefits the agriculture and agri-food sector and Canadians. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriScience Program – Clusters | Supports pre-commercial science activities and cutting-edge research on a national scale that benefits the agriculture and agri-food sector and Canadians. |
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No | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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AgriStability | Provides support to manage large farming income declines. |
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Yes | Yes | CAP Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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Canadian Agricultural Loans Act Program | Makes loans available to farmers to establish, improve, and develop their farms and to marketing agencies to market commodities. |
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Yes | No | CALA LCPA Indigenous Youth |
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Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program | Provides support for projects that address national or sector-wide priorities that help industry address emerging issues and capitalize on opportunities. |
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Yes | No | CASPP PCPSA Indigenous Youth |
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Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Permits, Licences and Authorizations | Provides licences, permits, and authorizations to conduct pari-mutuel betting on horse races. |
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Yes | No | CPMA ACPM Indigenous Youth |
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Canadian Soil Information Service | National and regional soil data and land resource information including, databases, interpretations, reports, maps, and publications. |
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Available - Yes | No | CanSIS SISCan Indigenous Youth |
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Coordinated Agriculture Policy Research Initiative | Funds projects developed in partnership with the academic community and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. |
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No | No | CAPRI ICRPA Indigenous Youth |
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Dairy Direct Payment Program | Compensation for market access commitments made under recent international trade agreements. |
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No | No | DDPP CETA CPTPP DDPPL Indigenous Youth |
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Dairy Farm Investment Program | Funds equipment upgrades to improve productivity. |
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No | No | DFIP PIFI Indigenous Youth |
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Dairy Processing Investment Fund | Provides funding to dairy processors for projects that will improve productivity and competitiveness. |
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No | No | DPIF CETA CPTPP FITPL Indigenous Youth |
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Drought Watch | Access information on weather and climate's impact on the Canadian agricultural sector. |
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Available Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Emergency On-Farm Support Fund | Provides assistance to help farmers cover some of the additional costs of keeping farm workers safe from COVID-19. |
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No | No | Coronavirus disease Quarantine Act TFW Indigenous Youth |
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Emergency Processing Fund | Helps companies implement changes to protect workers and their families due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to make investments needed to increase Canada's food supply capacity. |
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No | No | EPF Coronavirus disease FUT Indigenous Youth |
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Farm Debt Mediation Service | Provides financial counselling and mediation services to farmers in financial difficulty. |
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Available Yes | No | FDMS SMMEA Indigenous Youth |
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Food Waste Reduction Challenge | Supports innovations that accelerate and advance the deployment of diverse and high-impact solutions to food waste in Canada. |
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No | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Geospatial products | Access to interactive agricultural maps, geospatial data and tools. |
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Available Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative | Support economic development opportunities for Indigenous communities and entrepreneurs who are launching or expanding agriculture and food systems projects. |
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No | Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Indigenous Pathfinder service | Helps navigate information, tools, and support available to start or expand activities in the agriculture and agri-food sector. |
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Available Yes | Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Livestock Tax Deferral | Allows farmers who sell part of their breeding herd due to drought or flooding in prescribed drought or flood regions to defer a portion of sale proceeds to the following year. |
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Available Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Local Food Infrastructure Fund | Funding to support community-based, not-for-profit organizations to improve their food systems through investments in infrastructure that are directly related to addressing food insecurities and increasing the accessibility of healthy, nutritious, and ideally, local foods within their community. |
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Yes | No | LFIF FIAL Indigenous Youth |
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Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program: 14-Day Isolation Period Stream | Funding to assist with some of the incremental costs associated with the mandatory 14-day isolation period imposed under the Quarantine Act on temporary foreign workers upon entering Canada. |
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No | No | Coronavirus disease MIST TFW Indigenous Youth |
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Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program: 3-Day Hotel Quarantine Stream | Funding to assist with some of the costs associated with the 3-day hotel quarantine imposed under the Quarantine Act on temporary foreign workers upon entering Canada. |
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No | No | Coronavirus disease MIST TFW Indigenous Youth |
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Market Development Program for Turkey and Chicken | Provides full and fair compensation to supply-managed sectors for market access concessions made under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. |
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Yes | No | MDPTC CPTPP Indigenous Youth |
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Minor Use Pesticides at the Pest Management Centre | Matches pest problems with pesticides and prepares regulatory submissions for new minor uses of pesticides. |
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Available Yes | No | PMC MUP PUL CLA Indigenous Youth |
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Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization | Licenses intellectual property to bring new technologies to market. |
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Available Yes | No | OIPC BPIC Indigenous Youth |
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Pesticide Risk Reduction Program | Develops solutions that reduce the risk of pesticides harming humans and the environment. |
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Available Yes | No | PRR MPC RRP CLA Indigenous Youth |
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Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program | Helps supply-managed poultry and egg producers adapt to market changes resulting from the implementation of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. |
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Yes | No | PEFIP CPTPP Indigenous Youth |
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Price Pooling Program | Price guarantee to support cooperative marketing of eligible agricultural products. |
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Yes | No | Indigenous Youth |
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Saint-Hyacinthe Research and Development Centre's Industrial Program | Provides access to agri-food research, innovation, advanced equipment, food processing, and testing. |
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Available Yes | No | R&D Indigenous Youth |
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Supply Management Processing Investment Fund | Helps processors of supply-managed commodities adapt to market changes resulting from the implementation of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) |
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Yes | No | SMPIF FITPGO Indigenous Youth |
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Surplus Food Rescue Program | Helps organizations distribute surplus food to populations in need which would otherwise be lost or destroyed. |
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No | No | food waste Coronavirus disease Indigenous Youth |
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Trade show service | Promotes your products at the world's premier food and beverage trade shows. |
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Available Yes | No | pavilion Canadian Agricultural Partnership Indigenous Youth |
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Youth Employment and Skills Program | Provides funding for agricultural internships for youth. |
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No | Yes | No | YESP PECJ Indigenous Youth |
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