Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program Investing in Improved Agricultural Lands

Both the Federal and Provincial Governments are investing in projects that will help farmers adopt beneficial land-use management practices to increase environmental resiliency on farms in the province.

Funding from the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program helped support 17 initiatives in Newfoundland and Labrador in the program’s first year. The current 2024-25 intake period saw increased interest, with 40 applications submitted during this period – almost double the number of applications received in 2023-24. Review of applications for the current intake period is ongoing.

The Sustainable CAP is a five-year (2023-2028), $3.5 billion agreement between the federal, provincial and territorial governments to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and resiliency of Canada’s 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.