10/29/2025
Announcing a new National Organic Action Plan for Canada!
The Canadian Organic Alliance, including the Canada Organic Trade Association, Canadian Organic Growers and the Organic Federation of Canada, and partners are thrilled to announce the launch of a landmark Organic Action
Plan that calls on governments to adopt a coordinated strategy to:
🇨🇦Unlock Canada's organic sector's growth potential
🇨🇦Strengthen competitiveness, and
🇨🇦Build a resilient supply chain that can meet rising consumer demand at home and around the world
Organic food and farming are powerful economic and policy tools that can advance Canada's goals for growth, trade, and environmental performance, yet Canada currently has no strategy to realize their full potential.
The Canadian organic market reached $9.75 billion in 2024, growing more than eight percent since 2023, making it the fifth largest in the world in a global market now worth more than $200 billion. However, Canada is not keeping pace: domestic production has stalled, imports are rising, and Canadian processors are struggling to source Canadian organic ingredients. Meanwhile, Canada's competitors have recognized the opportunity and adopted organic policies and programs, with the United States spending eight times more per acre per year and the European Union spending 200 times more.
The Organic Action Plan outlines the actions needed to position the organic sector as an important and competitive pillar of Canada's agri-food economy. Developed collaboratively by the three organizations and partners with broad input from the sector, the plan proposes a public-private approach with shared commitments from industry and government to drive growth, investment, and coordination across jurisdictions in order to unlock Canada's organic opportunity.
Read the full Organic Action Plan here:
https://canada-organic.ca/en/what-we-do/advocacy/organic-action-plan-canada
