FoodShift Program

Inactive

The FoodShift program invited southern Ontario food and beverage processing organizations to apply for non-repayable funding up to $50,000 to lead projects focused on clean technology adoption, food waste reduction, or process optimization.

About the program

What is the FoodShift program?

The FoodShift program provided non-repayable funding for clean technology adoption ($2.4 million) to food and beverage processors based in southern Ontario to subsidize the cost of:

Adopting and integrating proven clean technologies into their operations; and/or
Engaging an eligible clean technology service provider to conduct assessment projects focused on food waste reduction and/or process optimizations, with the purpose of adapting operations to be greener and more sustainable.

Successful program recipients were selected through an open call for applications and awarded up to $50,000 in project-based, matching funding.

Funding was available only for projects involving eligible applicants and eligible clean technology providers and/or clean technology service providers. It could be used to cover advisory, acquisition, and commissioning costs related to the project.

The FoodShift program was supported by a nearly $3 million Government of Canada investment through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

Read the official program relaunch announcement here.

Funded by

OAFRI is funded by the Governments of Canada and Ontario through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP), a five-year, federal-provincial-territorial initiative.