New intake of Local Food Infrastructure Fund: large scale projects
Posted: January 15, 2025
Categories: Funding Opportunities / GoodFoodBites / Opportunities
A new intake of the Local Food Infrastructure Fund has opened for large scale projects. Applications will be accepted from January 13, 2025 to February 28, 2025 (unless funding is fully committed sooner).
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.
The program has 2 components, large scale projects and small scale projects.
This intake is for Large Scale Projects:
- provides non-repayable contribution funding between $150,000 and $500,000
- supports projects with multiple infrastructure/equipment needs and partnerships to address community food security in a more comprehensive manner
- projects must include a production elementnote2 and partnershipsnote3 (minimum 2) to enhance community food security
- application intake period: January 13, 2025 to February 28, 2025
- total funding of $19.2 million over 2 years starting in 2025-26
Learn more on the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website here.