Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada · Contribution program
Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF): Small Scale Projects
The Local Food Infrastructure Fund aims to strengthen food systems to be resilient, integrated, and sustainable, and to facilitate access to safe and nutritious food, primarily for the less privileged.
- Total value
- $1.4M
- Agreements
- 24
- Oct 2024 to Apr 2025
- Median agreement
- $54K
- Typical range
- $40K–$79K
- the middle half of agreements
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
Applying? Local Food Infrastructure Fund — Small Scale Projects. Taking applications? No. The deadline, who can apply and what applicants actually got are on its page.
See every record for this program on the government’s search. How to apply: look up the program on Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s website.
Who got it
Organizations with the most funding under this program.
Plus 1 agreements ($33K) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22 | $1.3M |
| 2025 | 2 | $110K |
By province
| Province or territory | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Quebec | 17 | $990K |
| British Columbia | 2 | $153K |
| Ontario | 2 | $129K |
| Alberta | 2 | $84K |
| Yukon | 1 | $52K |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Not-for-profit organizations and charities | 15 | $854K |
| For-profit organizations | 6 | $378K |
| Government | 1 | $89K |
| Other organizations | 1 | $55K |
| Indigenous recipients | 1 | $33K |
Industries funded
Where the department recorded an industry code (NAICS). Most agreements have none.
| Industry group | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Social advocacy organizations | 11 | $622K |
| Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services | 7 | $467K |
| Civic and social organizations | 4 | $237K |
| Individual and family services | 2 | $84K |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2025 | Mountain of Victory International Ministries Edmonton | Nourish and Restore: Food Recovery, Storage, and Distribution HubContribution | $42,100 |
| Jan 2025 | Cuisines collectives La Joyeuse Marmite | Expand the greenhouse to improve access and optimize production, processing and storageContribution | $67,671 |
| Nov 2024 | Boys and Girls Club of Yukon | BGCY Food ProgramContribution | $52,322 |
| Nov 2024 | Mountain of Victory youthational Ministries Edmonton | Nourish and Restore: Food Recovery, Storage, and Distribution HubContribution | $42,100 |
| Nov 2024 | Transformation Christian Centre | Empowering Local Food Security through Community-Based Urban Agriculture in Surrey, B.C.Contribution | $64,409 |
| Nov 2024 | Municipalité de Mandeville | Construction of a self-sufficient greenhouse for food resilience in MandevilleContribution | $54,723 |
| Nov 2024 | CultivAction Coopérative de Solidarité | Community Food Security Hub at Co-op CultivAction’s Senneville FarmContribution | $91,970 |
| Nov 2024 | Réseau alimentaire de l'Est de Montréal | Feeding the community: Towards equitable and collective food productionContribution | $25,402 |
| Nov 2024 | La Cafétéria communautaire MULTI CAF | INARI NetworkContribution | $70,472 |
| Nov 2024 | Le Filon | An electric truck for the Le Filon food systemContribution | $92,020 |
| Nov 2024 | Corporation de Développement Communautaire du Granit | Acquisition of infrastructure and equipment for a community kitchenContribution | $75,191 |
| Nov 2024 | Aux Trouvailles de Mandeville | Des trouvailles community gardening station, learn together and feed ourselvesContribution | $41,646 |
| Nov 2024 | Sirivik | Final preparations for the new Sirivik food sovereignty centerContribution | $32,526 |
| Nov 2024 | Ferme citoyenne de La Matanie | The nurturing MatanieContribution | $78,960 |
| Nov 2024 | Conseil Coordonateur Entreprises Québec-Mexique | Les Moissonneurs: Workshop teaching personal food production in a vertical garden suited to small urban spacesContribution | $30,891 |
| Nov 2024 | Cultiver Pour Partager | Construction of a 3-season greenhouse to extend our harvesting season and increase our volumes of fruit and vegetables.Contribution | $50,000 |
| Nov 2024 | District of Taylor | Community Greenhouse ExpansionContribution | $88,980 |
| Oct 2024 | Développement St-Godard | Our summer kitchen, a rural community project for food self-sufficiencyContribution | $26,530 |
| Oct 2024 | Municipalité de Saint-Benjamin | Gardening, food forest and community refrigerator addition in Saint-Benjamin!Contribution | $31,328 |
| Oct 2024 | Les Services de Main-D'oeuvre l'Appui Inc | Planting a mini-greenhouse and a nurse forest at the PotagerContribution | $41,932 |
| Oct 2024 | Les Jardins de la Terre | Optimize agricultural operations to improve food securityContribution | $100,000 |
| Oct 2024 | Municipalité de Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu | Community garden projectContribution | $79,105 |
| Oct 2024 | 807 Food Co-operative Inc. | Community Food Hub Production ProjectContribution | $95,205 |