AgriRecovery
AgriRecovery is a disaster relief framework that is part of a suite of federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) Business Risk Management (BRM) programs under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership. It is intended to work together with the core BRM programs to help agricultural producers recover from natural disasters. AgriRecovery is not a program. It is a framework which forms the basis by which federal, provincial and territorial governments work together to assess the impacts of disasters on agricultural producers and respond with joint initiatives where there is need for assistance beyond what is available through existing programs.
Grant Deadline
Deadline not available
Funding Amount
Deadline not available
Type of Grant
Funding
Sectors
Agri-Food, Agriculture
Demographics
Incorporation
For Profit
Perks
Region Restriction
This grant is restricted to whole of Canada
Keywords
agriculture, Recovery, disaster relief, Administered Jointly
Age Restriction
This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100
Eligibility and Requirements
What types of disaster events can be considered for assistance under AgriRecovery?
Those associated with natural disaster events such as:
- Disease (e.g., Bovine Tuberculosis, Potato Wart);
- Pest infestation (e.g., Potato Cyst Nematodes, Grasshoppers);
- Extreme weather (e.g., drought, flooding, tornado); and/or
- Contamination of the natural environment (e.g., chemical event).
What kinds of events cannot be considered?
Examples of events that cannot be considered for assistance under AgriRecovery include:
- Disaster events where there are no extraordinary costs producers must incur in order to recover;
- Disasters that can be effectively managed with assistance from existing programming;
- Cyclical market trends that result in income/revenue losses;
- Long-term market trends;
- Destruction of an individual’s property where there is no impact on the sector;
- Cancellation of a contract or market loss not related to a disaster event;
- Trade actions that are not directly related to a disease or pest event;
- Situations that are market-driven (e.g., the closing of a processing plant in an area); and
- Recurring events which can be effectively addressed in the longer-term through changes to the existing BRM programs (e.g., changes to insurance plans), other federal or provincial assistance mechanisms, or private sector risk management tools.
Assessment Process and Criteria
The AgriRecovery Assessment Processconsists of two-stages to evaluate a disaster event and its impacts on agricultural producers against the Framework’s criteria:
Preliminary Assessment Criteria:
The disaster event must:
- Not be a recurring event;
- A recurring event is defined as one which AgriRecovery has responded to previously in a province;
- Potential Exceptions: An event AgriRecovery has responded to previously in a province where either:
- FPT governments are in the process of completing work to determine if there is an alternative longer-term solution (may respond a second time), or
- FPT governments have completed the work to determine if there is an alternative long-term solution and it is deemed to be uninsurable or unable to be effectively addressed through existing or new government or private sector programming (may respond again).
- Be an abnormal event and therefore something that producers could not have foreseen and prepared for; and
- Result in extraordinary costs to producers, which are costs producers would not normally incur resulting from actions they must take in order to mitigate the impacts and/or resume production as quickly as possible.
If any one of the Preliminary Assessment criteria is not met, the assessment process stops and governments cannot provide assistance through the AgriRecovery Framework. If all three criteria are met, governments can proceed to the Formal Assessment stage.
Formal Assessment Criteria:
The disaster event should:
- Be a collective experience, affecting a large enough number of producers in a region that it has impacts for the sector in that region;
- Result in significant negative impacts on affected producers’ capacity to produce or market agricultural product;
- Result in significant extraordinary costs, meaning extraordinary costs that have a substantial impact on producers’ income and are large enough that it makes sense for governments to help with these costs; and
- Be beyond producers’ capacity to manage, even with the assistance available through existing programs.
The results of the analysis for the four Formal Assessment Criteria will be taken together to conclude whether or not an AgriRecovery response may be warranted.
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Contact
Additional information on the FPT AgriRecovery Framework, including information and links to current AgriRecovery initiatives, can be found on AAFC’s website. Information can also be obtained by contacting the Department at 1-855-773-0241.