Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunity Projects

Ontario agro-residues and automotive paint waste hybrid in engineered light-weight biocomposites for electric vehicle parts


Lead Applicant: Manjusri Misra

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: NA

Establishing an Ontario food panel: Tracking public attitudes and behaviour post-COVID-19


Lead Applicant: Spencer Henson

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: N/A

Opportunities and challenges for Ontario's agri-food exports in an uncertain and rapidly changing trade environment


Lead Applicant: Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: NA

Market analysis for hazelnuts in Ontario: optimizing value creation and capture through supply chain mapping


Lead Applicant: Kalinga Jagoda

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: NA

Opportunities for cannabis agritourism in Ontario: a aomestic and international comparative review


Lead Applicant: Hwansuk Chris Choi

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: NA

Market conditions for small scale on-farm anaerobic digestion


Lead Applicant: Brandon Gilroyed

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Understanding the market conditions and drivers of adopting small-scale anaerobic digestion—a process in which microorganisms break down organic matter to produce biogas—on farms.

 

Potential for re-introduction and commercial wild-simulated production of ginseng in Ontario forests


Lead Applicant: Melanie Kalischuk

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Monitoring performance indictors and forest ecological variables to determine the potential to re-introduce ginseng into Ontario forests.

 

Baseline study of the Ontario cannabis sector


Lead Applicant: Spencer Henson

Research Priority: Trade, Market & Targeted Sector Growth Opportunities

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Assessing the current state of Ontario's cannabis sector and providing a baseline, against which the future evolution of the sector can be assessed.