The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture will accept applications for the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program from February 1 until March 15, 2024.

The program aims to help farmers and producers increase the environmental resiliency of farms by adopting beneficial land use and management practices. Initiatives include maintaining and providing healthy soil and water resources, wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and adapting to the impacts of climate change.

The Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program provides 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 farms;
• Agri-environmental beneficial 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 services related to eligible RALP activities and outreach.

Applications and a program guide are available on the department’s website.

Funding for the program is provided through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a five-year (2023-28), $3.5-billion agreement between the federal, provincial and territorial governments to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and resiliency of the agriculture, agri‐food and agri‐based products sector. This includes $1 billion in federal programs and activities, and $2.5 billion that is cost-shared 60 per cent federally and 40 per cent provincially/territorially for programs that are designed and delivered by provinces and territories.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s farmers and producers can apply for funding from the more than $42 million in cost-shared Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funding, including more than $4.6 million for Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program initiatives.

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