Food & Water
Protecting Canada’s Food & Water Security
Food and water security are foundational to Canada’s economy, yet uncertainty from trade disruptions, climate impacts, and aging infrastructure are putting unprecedented pressure on these industries.
Agriculture currently accounts for approximately 10% of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions, while inefficient water infrastructure leads to a staggering 20% loss of municipal water and energy. Addressing these challenges is critical to achieving Canada’s climate goals and ensuring long-term resilience.
How Foresight Supports Canada’s Food & Water
Ecosystem Insights
We provide unparalleled insights that support informed decision-making, reduce investment risk, strengthen supply chains, and repurpose and valorize traditional waste streams.
This includes ecosystem mapping, feasibility and business case studies, impact assessments, market and strategic analyses, and policy recommendations.
Industry Support
As an innovation broker, we accelerate cleantech adoption across Canada’s critical sectors by identifying shared challenges and developing tangible pathways to overcome them. We partner with public and private organizations to support the adoption of tailored solutions—facilitating innovation scouting, collaborative research, and industry-led Working Groups to ensure the seamless integration of new technologies into industrial value chains.
Innovator Support
Our sector-specific support is designed for the complex challenges of scaling cleantech.
By leveraging a network of 250+ Executives in Residence (EIRs), we deliver high-impact matchmaking, technical showcases, and the specialized strategic guidance ventures need to accelerate their growth.
Other Support Services
- Industry Matchmaking
- Working Groups
- Technology Sourcing
- Business Cases & Custom Research
- Events & Roundtables
- Subject Matter Expertise
Advancing Canada’s Food Security with Agtech
Agriculture, food production, and delivery are inextricably linked to climate change and national security. Ag technology is the primary lever for securing Canada’s food systems, ensuring they remain resilient in the face of environmental and economic volatility. We take a collaborative approach to shaping the future of Canadian agriculture, leveraging an extensive network of agrifood ventures and advisors to help industry leaders identify and deploy solutions to solve their most pressing challenges and increase productivity.
Agtech Focus Areas:
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Circular Water Systems
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Indigenous-Led Food Sovereignty
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Agtech & Precision Farming
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Smart Irrigation & Water Management
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Regenerative Agriculture & Soil Health
Mission
Our agriculture program helps adopt world-class innovations that transform environmental stewardship into a competitive advantage, ensuring the Canadian agriculture industry has the global blueprint for both ecological resilience and long-term profitability.
Technology Adoption Services
Identify the right cleantech solutions for your unique challenges.
Our Technology Adoption Services de-risk the process of cleantech adoption, offering customized research, feasibility studies, business cases, innovation scouting, and technology validation to ensure data-driven decision making and a seamless transition from discovery to deployment.
Agtech Venture Support
Access the expertise, capital, and industry partners needed to accelerate your technology’s path to adoption.
Our Acceleration Program offers ventures at every stage access to Foresight’s network of over 270+ mentors and Executives in Residence. We offer a curated range of support, including technology development, market intelligence, professional development and exposure opportunities.
Working Groups
Scale your impact through collaboration.
Members get unparalleled access to a Canada-wide network of like-minded peers and forward-thinking organizations, offering tangible resources including affordable research, essential project development support, and cost-sharing initiatives. Active groups include:
Connect with Us
Not sure which agtech support is best for you?
Our team can help you navigate our programs and identify the right pathways to accelerate your innovation and adoption goals.
With agriculture playing a vital role in growing Canada's economy and reaching our net-zero targets, the Sustainable Agtech for Profitability Challenge was a crucial endeavour for the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario.
Tori Waugh Executive Director, Ontario Soil Network
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February 13, 2024 Report Canada’s Ventures to Value Chains: Agri-Foods Canada’s Ventures to Value Chains: Agri-Foods is part of a Foresight initiative leveraging data from technology companies and other key stakeholders to map, categorize, and analyze strategically important industry value chains for Canada in the clean economy. View Report -
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May 13, 2021 Report Alberta Agtech Offsets Report with Biological Carbon Canada This report provides an overview of the avoided and removed greenhouse gases in Alberta's annual cropping agriculture, by postal code, from 2002-2018. View Report
Our Agtech Partners
We collaborate with multiple partners to deliver unparalleled support to the Canadian ecosystem, including:
Canada’s Agtech Ecosystem Maps
Canada’s Agri-Food Ecosystem Map
Your essential guide to agtech in Canada.
Utilizing our robust network, we've leveraged data from agricultural technology companies and other key partners to map, categorize, and analyze Canada's cutting-edge agri-tech sector.
Want to learn more? Download the detailed agri-foods Ventures to Value Chains report.
Canada’s Ag-Bioeconomy Ecosystem Map
Your essential guide to Canada's ag-bioeconomy.
Utilizing our robust network, we've leveraged data from agtech and bioeconomy technology companies and other key partners to map, categorize, and analyze Canada's cutting-edge ag-bioeconomy sector.
Want to learn more? Download the detailed ag-bioeconomy Ventures to Value Chains report.
Canada’s Largest Water Tech Innovation Network
We connect end-users with the world’s most advanced water technologies to demonstrate how systems can deploy Canadian innovation to improve their operating efficiency, significantly reduce losses, and cut needless energy waste. We prioritize high-impact initiatives in mitigation, adaptation, and the transition to a circular economy through resource recovery and reuse.
Water Tech Focus Areas:
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Sustainable Water for Agriculture
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Circular Processing for Food & Beverage
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Water Management for the Built Environment
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De-Risking for Mining & Heavy Industry
Mission
Our water program helps end-users increase security and confidence in their water quality, quantity, and resilience by connecting them with the world’s best technologies.
The Foresight Community has been key in helping me close my pre-seed raise and also access grant funding available to cleantech companies that I wouldn't have even known about without them.
Aki Kaltenbach CEO, Save Da Sea
Technology Adoption Services
Identify the right water innovation for your unique challenges.
Our Technology Adoption Services de-risk the process of cleantech adoption, offering customized research, feasibility studies, business cases, innovation scouting, and technology validation to ensure data-driven decision making and a seamless transition from discovery to deployment.
Water Industry Working Groups
Scale your impact through collaboration.
Our Working Groups provide members unparalleled access to a Canada-wide network of like-minded peers and forward-thinking organizations, offering tangible resources including affordable research, essential project development support, and cost-sharing initiatives. Active water tech Working Groups include:
- Drought Water Technology
Water Tech Venture Support
With an ecosystem that spans the country’s largest sectors, our venture programming connects technologies with the training, support, and expertise needed to accelerate their path to adoption, including:
Industry Matchmaking
Drive the transition to global water security through targeted industrial matchmaking.
The Water Industry Matchmaking Series connects water SMEs and private sector experts to share insights and overcome challenges in the water sector. Sessions focus on a small, curated group of ventures, specifically selected for their relevance to the topic, and will explore current industry challenges, innovation gaps, and opportunities.
Water Tech Venture Support
Access the expertise, capital, and industry partners needed to accelerate your technology’s path to adoption.
Our Acceleration Program offers ventures at every stage access to Foresight’s network of over 270+ mentors and Executives in Residence. We offer a curated range of support, including technology development, market intelligence, professional development and exposure opportunities.
Connect with Us
Not sure which water tech support is best for you?
Our team can help you navigate our programs and identify the right pathways to accelerate your innovation and adoption goals.
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Our Water Tech Partners
We collaborate with multiple partners to deliver unparalleled support to the Canadian ecosystem, including:
Canada's Water Tech Ecosystem Map
Your essential guide to water technology in Canada.
Utilizing our robust network, we’ve leveraged data from technology companies and other key partners to map, categorize, and analyze Canada’s water technology sector.
Want to learn more? Download the detailed water Ventures to Value Chains report.
