Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP)

 

 
Reporting Requirements

Project Reporting Form.doc

Lists of Contracted Projects

CAAP Alberta Contracted Projects.pdf

PCAA Alberta Projets Sous Contrats.pdf 

Financial Tracking

CAAP Financial Activity and In-Kind Tracking.xls

The Agriculture and Food Council is managing Alberta’s $21.9-million share of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s five-year, $163-million Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP).

 

CAAP will build on the success of the previous program, Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF). Its objective is to facilitate the agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector’s ability to seize opportunities, to respond to new and emerging issues, and to pathfind and pilot solutions to new and ongoing issues in order to help it adapt and remain competitive.

CAAP will focus on:
  • Seizing opportunities, taking advantage of a situation or circumstance to develop a new idea, product, niche, or market opportunity to the benefit of the sector.
  • Responding to new and emerging issues, addressing issues that were not of concern previously, or were not known about at all.
  • Pathfinding and piloting solutions to new and ongoing issues, testing ways of dealing with new issues, or find new ways to deal with existing issues.

Pathfinding means looking at different options to prepare the sector to face the future and remain competitive.

Piloting means the testing of ideas or approaches to see if they are effective enough to use in everyday applications in the sector.

 

CAAP will fund:
  • Projects that have projected benefits that exceed costs.
  • Applied and adaptive (not basic) research.
  • Projects that analyze or test solutions and strategies to address issues and opportunities.
  • Projects that test or analyze innovative products, processes or technologies.
  • Regional and multi-regional projects.
CAAP will not fund:
  • Advertisement, promotion or awareness activities that brand one region, commodity and/or product over another.
  • Information sharing and/or general awareness activities (symposia, AGMs, tradeshows, conferences, or speakers at general meetings) unless they are components of a broader project and are meant to disseminate project’s results.
  • Ongoing activities, normal commercial expansion or normal operations.
  • International marketing and promotion.
  • Human clinical trials.
The suggested end date for projects is October 31, 2013, with the final report due December 31, 2013

For specific CAAP inquiries, please contact Agri-Industry Development Officer April Milne at april.milne@agfoodcouncil.com or (780) 469-3714 ext 237 or Agri-Industry Development Officer Megan Stevenson at megan.stevenson@agfoodcouncil.com or (780) 469-3714 ext. 229.

 

For more information about CAAP, please visit Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s website here.