Projects

Food Convergence Innovation (FCI) Canada – Food and Beverage Supply Chain Project will focus on creating a national, sector-wide platform with enterprise-to-enterprise connectivity capabilities, which will help strengthen Canada’s domestic food supply chain.

NRGene Canada, Farmers Business Network Canada, Inc., Pulse Genetics and Manitoba Harvest are developing new pea and hemp varieties for use in food and ingredient processing, including a new pea-hemp flour blend.

Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI) in collaboration with the Alberta Data Institute (ADI), a program under Alberta Innovates, and other participating organizations will work together to improve data use within Canada’s agriculture and agrifood sector.

Led by Indigenous Works, the project is part of the organization’s Luminary Initiative, to develop a national strategy to improve diversity and inclusion of Indigenous groups in the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector.

New School Foods and Liven Proteins partner to develop plant-based seafood products — focusing on developing a whole muscle, plant-based fish filet that emulates the same texture, taste and cooking experience of fish — creating a product that appeals to the mass-market consumer.

Merit Functional Foods, TWC Nutrition, Daiya Foods and Grand River Foods are partnering to use Merit Functional Foods’ pea, canola and blended pea-canola protein ingredients in new plant-based products, which could include alternative meat products, alternative dairy products and other beverages.

In this second phase, partners Farmers Edge, OPIsystems and TrustBIX will improve traceability and marketing opportunities by creating a platform for Canada's plant-based food, feed and ingredient sector.

Canada Protein Ingredients Ltd. - Ingrédients Protéiques du Canada Ltée (CPI-IPC), DJ Hendrick International, Agrocorp Processing, Semences Prograin and Synthesis Network are partnering together to produce clean label protein ingredients from Canadian-grown soybeans.

GrainFrac Inc., Tomtene Seed Farm and Ripple Foods PBC are partnering to develop new, high-protein pulse-based ingredients for the non-dairy beverage market.

This new project between Enhanced Medical Nutrition and Infinit Nutrition Canada will focus on meeting the rising demand for high-quality plant-based protein options within the clinical and athletic markets.

A new program from EMILI, Actua and AITC-C will show students the opportunities available in plant protein, agrifood and digital agriculture.

Avena Foods, Big Mountain Foods, Daiya Foods, Bakenology and The Village Bakery have joined forces to test and develop new applications for Avena Foods' proprietary tempered pulse flours.