Food Waste Reduction Challenge
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Program purpose (as reported by the department)
The Challenge supports new innovations and solutions which can help address the problem of food waste and loss across the supply chain, thereby reducing the associated economic, environmental and social costs of food waste.
Agreements with businesses
35
Median agreement
$400,000
Range
$100,000 – $1,500,000
Recipients
27
Last 12 months
0
Total value
$13,496,296
What the numbers say
- Half of the agreements with businesses are worth $400,000 or less.
- The largest recipient, Jus LOOP Inc., holds $1,900,000 (14% of the program's business funding in this data).
- The most recent agreement in the data started on 2023-12-08.
By fiscal year
2021-22$1,400,00014
2022-23$6,646,91516
2023-24$5,449,3815
By recipient province
ON$5,548,14715
QC$4,800,0008
NS$800,0002
NB$649,3833
BC$649,3833
MB$549,3832
AB$500,0002
Largest recipients
| Recipient | Agreements | Value | Latest start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jus LOOP Inc. | 2 | $1,900,000 | 2023-12-08 |
| Genecis Bioindustries Inc. | 3 | $1,549,382 | 2023-04-01 |
| Clean Works Inc. | 3 | $1,549,382 | 2023-04-01 |
| Still Good Inc. | 1 | $1,500,000 | 2023-12-07 |
| Chinova Bioworks Inc. | 2 | $549,383 | 2022-12-22 |
| Carbon Lock Technologies Inc. | 2 | $549,383 | 2023-01-06 |
| Aruna Revolution Health Inc. | 2 | $549,383 | 2023-04-01 |
| ALT Tex Inc. | 1 | $449,383 | 2023-01-06 |
| Vivid Machines Inc. | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-05-27 |
| TriCycle Inc. | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-05-30 |
| Top Grade Ag | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-05-31 |
| The Station Food Company (2019) Ltd. | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-06-02 |
| Still Good Inc./Toujours Bon Inc. | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-06-02 |
| Outcast Foods Inc. | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-06-16 |
| Blanc de gris - Champignons frais | 1 | $400,000 | 2022-05-30 |
Recent agreements
| Start | Recipient | Project | Province | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-08 | Jus LOOP Inc. | LOOP Synergies | QC | $1,500,000 |
| 2023-12-07 | Still Good Inc. | Advanced processing technologies for the treatment and development of value-added organic ingredients | QC | $1,500,000 |
| 2023-04-01 | Clean Works Inc. | Clean Flow In-the-Field Hydroxyl-radical treatment of pre-harvest fruits & vegetables to extend shelf-life and enhance food safety while retaining nutritive, sensory characteristics | ON | $999,999 |
| 2023-04-01 | Genecis Bioindustries Inc. | Upcycling municipal and industrial food waste into compostable bioplastics. | ON | $999,999 |
| 2023-04-01 | Aruna Revolution Health Inc. | Aruna Revolution: Fight for your Bodies, Fight for the Planet with Compostable Menstrual Pads | BC | $449,383 |
| 2023-01-06 | Carbon Lock Technologies Inc. | Conversion of Food Waste into Stable Biocarbon as a Carbon Sequestration and Methane Reduction Solution | MB | $449,383 |
| 2023-01-06 | ALT Tex Inc. | Biodegradable Fabric Engineered from Food Waste | ON | $449,383 |
| 2022-12-22 | Chinova Bioworks Inc. | Using the power of mushrooms Chinova's clean-label solution improves the quality, freshness and shelf-life of food and beverage products which promotes the reduction of food waste from farm-to-fork | NB | $449,383 |
| 2022-12-22 | Clean Works Inc. | Clean Flow In-the-Field - Hydroxyl-radical plasma treatment of pre-harvest fruit & vegetables to extend shelf-life and enhance food safety while retaining nutritive, sensory characteristics | ON | $449,383 |
| 2022-12-12 | Genecis Bioindustries Inc. | Upcycling municipal and industrial food waste into compostable bioplastics | ON | $449,383 |
| 2022-06-16 | Outcast Foods Inc. | Outcast Foods - Upcycled Nutrition | NS | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-15 | Food Cycle Science Corporation | Residential On-Site Food Waste Diversion for Northen, Rural, and Remote Communities | ON | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-08 | Jus LOOP Inc. | LOOP Synergies gives food manufacturers access to upgraded foods by transforming them into stable ingredients in various forms. It means joining forces for an exponential impact | QC | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-02 | Still Good Inc./Toujours Bon Inc. | Advanced processing technologies for the treatment and development of value-added organic ingredients | QC | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-02 | Abokichi Inc. | Harnessing century-old practices from Japan to upcycle okara, the nutritious soybean pulp from tofu/soymilk production, into innovative and delicious products | ON | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-02 | Savormetrics Inc. | AI-driven sensor devices that provide growers, distributors, processors and retailers with predictive metrics like shelf-life that enable smart operations, reducing food waste | ON | $400,000 |
| 2022-06-02 | The Station Food Company (2019) Ltd. | A replicable, turn-key solution for converting unmarketable fresh produce from waste to value-added food products for local institutional use and by-products for various uses | NS | $400,000 |
| 2022-05-31 | Top Grade Ag | A pro-active on-farm grain drying process using bin instrumentation and a web-based app to preserve food quality and reduce waste by eliminating reliance on mother nature to field dry broad acre crops | AB | $400,000 |
| 2022-05-30 | TriCycle Inc. | With a circular economy approach, TriCyle breeds highly nutritious edible insects with a low carbon footprint by upcycling locally recovered food residues and transforming its waste into fertilizer | QC | $400,000 |
| 2022-05-30 | Blanc de gris - Champignons frais | Blanc de gris reduces food waste through its innovative circular economy mycoculture process, which transforms brewery grains into a substrate for growing gourmet mushrooms. | QC | $400,000 |
| 2022-05-27 | Vivid Machines Inc. | Vivid Machines provides fruit growers with a real-time sensor and computer vision system to digitize production and provide insights to prevent quality issues, reducing food waste and increasing profitability | ON | $400,000 |
| 2022-01-27 | 9380-2932 Québec Inc. | Unknown | QC | $100,000 |
| 2022-01-26 | Terra Bioplastics Inc. | Protein from Brewers Spent Grains | ON | $100,000 |
| 2022-01-25 | Peak Harvest Agritech Ltd. | Peak Harvest - Naturally Extending the Freshness of Produce | ON | $100,000 |
| 2022-01-25 | Chinova Bioworks Inc. | Chinova Bioworks Mushroom Extract Preservation | NB | $100,000 |
Method & sources
Source: Government of Canada "Proactive Disclosure – Grants and Contributions" (Open Government Licence – Canada). We include agreements with for-profit recipients that started on or after April 1, 2021, and keep the latest amendment of each agreement, so values are the current agreement value, not money paid out. Departments report on their own schedule, so the most recent quarter is incomplete. Recipients are linked to company pages by exact name match. This is not an endorsement or an eligibility determination — check each program's official page.
Dataset on open.canada.ca · Search the official grants records