Cellular Agriculture Canada is an initiative led by New Harvest Canada to collaboratively advance Canada’s cellular agriculture ecosystem.  In May 2023, 34 individuals from 30 different organizations across the Canadian cellular agriculture ecosystem came together to strategize their collective future. The group discussed key opportunities and challenges facing cellular agriculture’s progress in Canada, what success could look like in a five-year and twenty-year time horizon and some critical collective actions to pursue in the near future, including the creation of a public-facing collective entity to represent the ecosystem.

OUR MANDATE

We believe Canada can capitalize on the global movement to achieve a net-zero economy by leveraging its strengths in the emerging field of cellular agriculture. This will help Canada not only to maintain its leading position as a producer and exporter of agricultural products but also to tap into new areas of value-added agricultural biomanufacturing. To capture this opportunity, innovators, start-ups and established companies along the supply chain, as well as government, researchers, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, need to come together to address the challenges and expand on the opportunities to ensure Canada becomes a global leader in the cellular agriculture space. 

CAC will advance this mandate by pursuing the following six action areas:

1. Developing a blueprint for Canadian leadership and success

2. Policy engagement and education

3. Enabling collaboration

4. Attracting public and private funding

5. Public engagement and education

6. Purpose-built talent development