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Harnessing Agriculture for Research, Value-add Environmental Solutions, and Technology (HARVEST) │ Genome Alberta

March 18, 2026

Value

HARVEST will contribute between $350,000 – $750,000 CAD to each approved project.

Description

Harnessing Agriculture for Research, Value-add Environmental Solutions, and Technology (HARVEST) is a nation-wide funding competition supporting innovative life sciences and biotechnology companies in Canada that are driving commercialization in technology advancements across agriculture and agri-food value chains.

Eligible Applicants

  • Applicant must be a Canadian for-profit enterprise (see Appendix A in the Program Guide).
  • All funded work must happen within Canada.
  • The project supports the invention, development or commercialization of a life science/biotechnology-based, or -enabled, innovation with a clearly articulated market opportunity.
  • Additional partners are not mandatory but may strengthen a proposal (e.g. cofunding partners such as commodity groups, established companies interested in a strategic or distribution partnership, or interest as customers or end users).
  • The project has the potential to generate economic impacts for the company as well as environmental benefits to Canada.
  • Applicants will demonstrate the market potential of their innovations by outlining the competitive landscape, and industry positioning.
  • Capacity of company to complete milestones and deliverables.
  • Final eligibility decisions rest with the HARVEST organizers.
  • Project will be assessed on the potential environmental impacts resulting from the funded activities.
    • Prior LCA work that shows environmental impact of the proposed technology may be helpful in assessing projects. However, previously performed LCAs are not a requirement.

To meet PACT-stream criteria, applicants should be:

  • Open to technology at Technology Readiness Level (TRL ~2-7), where early TRL proposals are expected to move along the TRL scale over the duration of the project.
  • Developing an innovation focused on improving the environmental footprint of primary agricultural production.
  • Leveraging life sciences and biotechnology innovations to reduce environmental impacts and/or improve the efficiency of on-farm production activities.

To meet wCc-stream criteria, applicants should be:

  • Open to technologies that are ready to scale past the laboratory (TRL ~4-5).
  • Contributing to an area within agriculture, food and beverage production, or other areas in the food value chain
  • Utilizing an enzymatic, fermentation, and/or engineering biology-based process.
  • Have the potential to generate measurable social and economic impacts and benefits.

Eligible Expenses

Eligible costs for both HARVEST funding and co-funding include:

  • Salaries and benefits directly related to the completion of the project activities
  • Contracted services
    • Project budgets may include services from others. Such services will be considered eligible only if they are specific to the project, crucial to its success, and cannot reasonably be completed by the project team. To be considered eligible, companies must enter into specific agreements with third-party service providers.
  • Equipment
    • Equipment is defined as items that have greater than $10,000 in value and a useful life of greater than one year.
    • Project budgets can include individual equipment items that cost less than or equal to $100,000. Requests for more expensive equipment will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Such expenses will be considered eligible only if the equipment is specific to the project, crucial to its success, and cannot reasonably be funded by other sources or accessed by other means.
    • The collective allocation of HARVEST funds for equipment cannot exceed 20% per cent of the approved HARVEST funding, regardless of the total value of equipment expenses allowed. Eligible equipment costs that exceed this limit must be covered by other approved funding sources.
  • Other direct costs
  • Overhead
    • Overhead costs are capped at 15% of the total HARVEST allocation to the budget

Deadline Date

March 18, 2026

Contact

Contact Name: Tom Finn, Sector Innovation Manager – Agriculture & Agri-food

E-mail Address: tfinn@genomealberta.ca

Website: https://genomealberta.ca/funding/harvest/

Industry:

Agriculture, Software/Technology

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

Agri-Food, Innovation

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