What is a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program?
Protecting Ecosystem Services Healthy ecosystems provide society with many benefits. These benefits are commonly referred to as ecosystem services and can include things like [...]
IAF Welcomes RALP & BCSRIF Funding to Farmland Advantage
The Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) is pleased to announce two new funding partnerships for Farmland Advantage (FLA). These two partnerships will result [...]
IAF Holds 27th Annual General Meeting
IAF held its 27th Annual General Meeting via Zoom on September 13, 2023, where the Board of Directors provided a review of IAF’s 2022/23 activities [...]
The 2022/23 Farmland Advantage Impact Report Is Here!
The Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) is pleased to announce the 2022/23 Farmland Advantage (FLA) Impact Report is now available. This report provides an [...]
Genome BC and IAF Team Up to Deliver Genomics Funding
From kelp to hops, bees to berries, BC researchers are harnessing the power of genomics to solve challenges facing the province’s agriculture and aquaculture sectors [...]
IAF Releases 2021/22 Farmland Advantage Impact Report
The Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) is pleased to announce the 2021/22 Farmland Advantage (FLA) Impact Report is now available. This report provides an [...]
IAF Hires New CEO
IAF is pleased to announce that TJ Schur will lead the organization as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective March 1, 2023! “On behalf [...]
ECCC Renews Support for FLA’s Work in BC’s Grasslands
Farmland Advantage (FLA) is pleased to announce that the Government of Canada, through Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), will continue to provide funding [...]
Living Lab Coming to BC Agriculture
The Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) is pleased to announce Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has funded its multi-commodity application to the Agricultural Climate Solutions [...]
EFP Advisors Learn New Techniques for Conducting an RHA
Last month. IAF’s Environmental Farm Plan advisors were provided the opportunity to take a training workshop, organized by IAF and the BC Ministry of [...]
New Funding Announced for Farmland Advantage
The Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship has announced the B.C. Government's $30 million commitment to improve B.C.'s Watersheds. The Investment Agriculture Foundation [...]
IAF Begins Delivering the CAP: EFP & BMP Programs
In December 2021, the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) began delivering the Canadian Agricultural Partnership Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) and Beneficial Management Practices (BMP) [...]
