Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership

The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) is a five-year (2023-2028), $3.5-billion initiative that aims to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation, and resiliency of Canada’s agriculture, agri‐food and agri‐based products sector.

Sustainable CAP includes $1 billion in federal programs and $2.5 billion in cost-shared initiatives. Cost-shared initiatives are funded 60 per cent federally and 40 per cent provincially/territorially for programs that are designed and delivered by provinces and territories.

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. Applicants may be eligible for an  advance payment for an approved Sustainable CAP project, if the advance request is received by Sustainable CAP Administration prior to December 31st of any fiscal year (April 01 to March 31). Requests for advance payments received after December 31st of any fiscal year will be denied.

Program Guide

Sustainable CAP Program Guide

Applications

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change

Agriculture Research

Agriculture Marketing

Agriculture Growth and Secondary Processing

Mitigating Agricultural Risks

Advancing Public Trust

Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program

The Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP) aims to help producers conserve and enhance the resiliency of agricultural landscapes by accelerating adoption of land use and management practices. Specifically, the goal is to maximize multiple ecological goods and services (EG&S) for farms and regional pastures. EG&S are the benefits society derives from healthy functioning ecosystems and includes the maintenance and provision of healthy soil and water resources, wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and adapting to the impacts of climate change.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, RALP will focus on providing support for:

  • Activities that decrease the amount of marginal and fragile lands used for cropping;
  • Activities that maintain healthy, strong soils while naturally mitigating the impacts of climate change on farm;
  • Agri-environmental best management practices that seek to increase and enhance multiple ecological goods and services; and
  • Awareness and knowledge transfer, extension services, program development, and product development related to eligible RALP activities and outreach.

Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program Guide 

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Application (RALP)

Premises Identification Program

Producers are required to participate in the Premises Identification Program to be eligible for funding through Sustainable CAP.

Premises identification is an essential part of a traceability system. It links animals and food products to geographic locations for better management of animal health and food safety emergencies. Newfoundland and Labrador’s premises identification system maps out parcels of land where animals and food products are grown, kept, assembled or disposed of. In a crisis, such as a disease outbreak or natural emergency, the Premises Identification Program system can quickly identify and notify individuals who may be affected.

Supplemental Documents