CANZA platform helps farmers with climate-smart funding and learning opportunities
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The Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-Food has launched the first phase of the CANZA Marketplace, a digital platform designed to help farmers adopt climate-smart agriculture and be rewarded for positive environmental outcomes.
Evan Fraser, executive director of the Arrell Food Institute and a founding partner of CANZA, said farmers cannot be expected to both produce food and enhance the environment on their own.
“We founded CANZA with the belief that Canada can be a global leader in regenerative, climate-smart agriculture, and we need ways to ensure the market rewards farmers for doing things such as sequestering greenhouse gases and protecting biodiversity,” Fraser said. “When we have mechanisms in place to provide financial incentives for environmentally beneficial practices, we will see truly economically and environmentally sustainable food systems. The CANZA Marketplace is an important part in the journey towards creating green economic growth.”
The platform combines funding programs and educational resources in one place. It aims to address a key agri-food challenge by helping users navigate fragmented support programs and connect on-farm environmental improvements to economic value.
