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Local Food Infrastructure Fund – Large Scale Projects (LFIF) | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

February 28, 2025

Value

provides non-repayable contribution funding between $150,000 and $500,000

Description

The Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF) supports projects that strengthen community food security and increase the availability and accessibility of local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food through food production-focused activities for equity-deserving groups, particularly Indigenous and Black communities.

Eligible Applicants

  • Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit)
    • First Nation, Inuit or Métis community and/or government
    • First Nation, Inuit or Métis not-for-profit association
    • First Nation, Inuit or Métis not-for-profit organization
  • Not-for-profit: Organizations that have a mandate or mission to provide community food services. They may include:
    • associations
    • corporations
    • local community, charitable or voluntary organizations
  • Municipal Administrations

Your organization fosters equity, diversity and inclusion by removing barriers so that each person (including those who identify as Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and others, as well as Black and Indigenous communities) has equal access to opportunities and resources and can achieve their full potential.

Eligible Expenses

Activities directly related to food production for equity-deserving groups must be the prominent feature of your proposed project. For example, an Indigenous community/government seeking to establish a Community Food Hub including a community garden and greenhouse with an irrigation system to produce food and provide education on food production in partnership with the Education Department, and a community kitchen for food skills workshops and food preservation enabling elders’ knowledge transfer in partnership with the Health Department. These production elements can be new or existing and can be managed directly by you or through collaboration with a partner. In Large Scale projects, when a production element already exists, it is not mandatory to request additional production-related items.

Eligible activities are restricted to the purchase and installation of:

  • equipment to produce food (such as, equipment to grow and/or harvest food)
  • equipment to process, distribute, store, and/or transport food

Deadline Date

Applications were accepted until February 28, 2025. The program ends on March 31, 2027.

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