Highlights
- Dairy Farmers of Canada and Bioenterprise Canada have partnered on The Green Pursuit: A Sustainability & Innovation Challenge to award $50,000 in prizing.
- Submissions are now closed and the top ten projects have been selected.
- Judging will take place via a panel of industry experts on October 5, 2023.
The Green Pursuit is a national business pitch competition that was created in partnership between Dairy Farmers of Canada and Bioenterprise, Canada’s Food & Agri-Tech Engine. The challenge is designed to find new innovative sustainability solutions for the agriculture and food & beverage sectors in Canada and includes $50,000 in prizes.
Dairy farmers understand the interconnectedness of sustainability efforts and how organizations can work across the sector in complementary ways that all contribute to our shared goal of a carbon-neutral future.
The program launched in May of 2023 and after reviewing all submissions, we’re excited to announce the top 10 nominees. Representing the 10 highest scoring projects, the nominees will participate in a virtual event on October 5, 2023 where they will pitch their business and/or demo their technology to a panel of experts who will ultimately determine the winner as well as the runner up.
First prize will receive a $45,000 cash prize and the runner up will receive a $5,000 cash prize. The applications will be scored on the problem or opportunity they are addressing, their unique solution, the team’s experience, and the overall sustainability impact on the agriculture, food, and drink sector in Canada.
Meet the nominees
The world’s first bio-inputs for agricultural frost protection while addressing the imperatives of decarbonization and global food security in the face of climate change.
Revolutionizing menstrual health with compostable menstrual pads, locally manufactured using natural fibers from local food and crop waste. Better for the body and the planet.
A cloud based automated solution for product level carbon accounting to reduce both cost and time by over 90%.
A proprietary technology that efficiency converts plastic waste back into virgin-quality plastics and into advanced use in performance plastics, agricultural biostimulants, and others.
Eliminates weeds while minimizing impact on ecosystems by leveraging the data collected by satellite and farm equipment.
A patented, biological method for converting animal manure into plant bio-stimulants that reduce the need for chemical fertilizers while increasing crop production.
A patent pending biotechnology platform to develop and manufacture bioactives and micelle nanocarriers from renewable raw materials.
Creating an upcycling platform that turns agro-industrial byproducts into value added products, starting with brewers spent grain as a feedstock.
Tailors on-site systems to upcycle agri-food business waste. Systems eliminate the externalities of waste while re-introducing value through sustainable agri-food products.
Proposes to manufacture renewable fertilizers concentrated from manure slurry , and considerably reduce the carbon footprint of Canadian agriculture.
Learm More about the Green Pursuit
Discover more about Bioenterprise Canada and innovations in agri-tech at Bioenterprise.ca
