CAAP Program Overview

 

The goal of the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) is to support industry-led approaches and solutions that allow the sector to quickly adapt to changes, respond to emerging issues and seize new opportunities.

 

Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) focuses on facilitating the agriculture, agri-food, and agri-based products sector's ability to seize opportunities, to respond to new and emerging issues, and to pathfind and pilot solutions to new and ongoing issues in order to help it adapt and remain competitive.

 

The agriculture and agri-food industry is constantly changing and requires flexibility and the capacity to address new issues as they emerge. To help achieve this CAAP will focus on:

 

• Seizing opportunities
• Responding to new and emerging issues
• Pathfinding and piloting solutions to new and ongoing issues

Seizing opportunities is meant to take advantage of a situation or circumstance to develop a new idea, product, niche, or market opportunity to the benefit of the sector.

 

Responding to new and emerging issues is meant to address issues that were not of concern previously, or were not known about at all. Issues are often different throughout Canada because the state of development of the sector, soil conditions, and climate vary considerably from one region to another.

 

Pathfinding and piloting solutions to new and ongoing issues is meant to test ways of dealing with new issues, or find new ways to deal with existing issues. Under the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), this is done in two ways:

 

• Pathfinding means looking at different options to prepare the sector to face the future and remain competitive.
• Piloting means the testing of ideas or approaches to see if they are effective enough to use in everyday applications in the sector.

 

 

Program Principles and Criteria

 

Under the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP), funding is available for eligible projects identified and carried out by the agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector. Proposals to access the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) funding must meet specified principles and be consistent with the program's criteria.

 

 

Program Delivery

 

All of the components of the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAPP) are delivered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada or through regional Industry Councils.

 

National Projects

 

• If your project is national in scope, then you can apply through Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. How do you tell if you are national in scope? If your project involves, or is supported by, representatives of a national sector and it will ultimately benefit the stakeholders of the targeted sector across Canada, then your project may be national in scope.

Regional and Multi-Regional projects

 

• If your project is regional in scope, then you can contact the Industry Council for your province or territory.
• Industry Councils also deliver multi-regional projects, known as Collective Outcomes. These are projects funded by two or more Industry Councils in partnership to address targeted, common areas of focus with the goal of maximizing the benefits to the sector beyond the project's province or territory of origin, but are not necessarily national in scope. An Industry Council may identify a project that has potential for wider benefit in other provinces and territories. Collective Outcome projects may, for example, address the needs of a crop concentrated in specific geographic areas or deal with specific weather or pest challenges common to geographic areas.

 

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