BC Indigenous Agriculture Development Program - Stream 1: Indigenous governments, communities and organizations
The B.C. Indigenous Agriculture Development Program supports Indigenous peoples’ success in the food and agriculture sector. The program stream for governments, communities and organizations offers Agricultural Opportunities Assessments (Step 1 of the Program) and Financial and Business Planning (Step 2) with services from a Qualified Business Consultant, as well as optional top-up funding to support community engagement during your projects.
Grant Deadline
2024-08-23
Funding Amount
$15,000 Each Applicant is only eligible to receive a total of up to $15,000 of funding through the Indigenous Agriculture Development Program during the funding cycle of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (2018-2023), in addition to up to $4,000 of Community Engagement Top-up Funding (up to $2,000 for each Step 1 or 2 project). The maximum funding available for an Agriculture Opportunities Assessment Project (Step 1) is $5,000 (plus the optional top-up funding) and the maximum funding available for a Financial and Business Planning Project (Step 2) is $10,000 (plus the optional top-up funding).
Type of Grant
Funding
Sectors
Agriculture
Demographics
Indigenous
Incorporation
For Profit
Perks
Region Restriction
This grant is restricted to whole of Canada
Keywords
Age Restriction
This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100
Eligibility and Requirements
This stream of the Indigenous Agriculture Development Program is open to any Indigenous government, community or organization, including a band or tribal council, government of a self-governing First Nation or Métis Nation Chartered Community, Society or Association, economic development corporation, other Indigenous organization or association, Indigenous for-profit or not-for-profit corporation, cooperative or institution, or other Indigenous business , partnership or joint venture in the Province of British Columbia.
Eligible activities included for the Agriculture Opportunities Assessment (Step 1):
Situation analysis, including inventories and review of the current agriculture and food resource base (e.g. land, knowledge, equipment, supplies, labour, capital, etc.); goals and vision; providing a suite of options for next steps with economic analysis, including financial analysis, production economics and marketing opportunities; review of regulatory requirements; risk assessment and mitigation; and, identifying enterprises and/or activities with the highest likelihood to succeed/meet Applicant’s objectives. Projects must include the following components (minimum deliverables):
Overview of project objectives and summary of past agriculture experience, activities and works
Summary of current and future assets (land, knowledge, equipment, labour etc.)
Capacity, land conditions, market opportunities and risk assessment Evaluation and SWOT analysis of viable agricultural, food production, processing, or other related opportunity(s) Draft estimates for infrastructure and start-up costs for potential enterprises and/or activities +Commodity cost/return projection estimates for proposed business venture(s)
Action Plan with recommendations, including concise next steps
Follow-up meeting with the Applicant to confirm project met their needs Eligible activities included for the Financial and Business Planning (Step 2):
Business strategy development; business structure analysis; production economics; financial analysis; marketing strategy; value-added ventures; risk assessment and mitigation; and, skills and knowledge development in business management or production and processing to meet identified needs.
Grant Application website
Contact
The Applicant must submit the completed application in Word file format to Agribusiness@gov.bc.ca, copied (CC’ed) to the Consultant. Hardcopy application submissions are not accepted.