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Agriculture
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OUR MISSION
ALUS engages farmers and ranchers in creating nature-based solutions on their land to build climate resilience and enhance biodiversity for the benefit of communities and future generations.
Discover the only organization in North America delivering a turnkey agriculture-based ecosystem services program.
Find tailor-made solutions to help your business, organization or foundation meet its nature and climate targets.
Discover where ALUS communities are working to create solutions to local and global environmental challenges.
Investing in People
As the largest single group of landowners in North America, agricultural producers are in a unique position to provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Farmers and ranchers have the land, skills and knowledge to help develop and implement nature-based solutions that help reverse biodiversity loss, improve water quality and quantity, and reduce the impacts of climate change.
Through its farmer-led, turnkey program, ALUS is helping communities across North America engage farmers and ranchers in implementing regionally appropriate solutions to global environmental problems.
Delivering real results
ALUS communities support farmers and ranchers in building new acres of nature on marginal lands to enhance biodiversity, create habitat for wildlife and species at risk, improve water quality and quantity, reduce the risk of drought and flood, sequester and store carbon, and build community climate resilience. Every new acre of nature-based projects, like grasslands, tree and shrub plantings, and wetland and riparian restoration, delivers a suite of ecosystem services that benefit people and communities.
Discover how your business, organization or foundation can invest in the people who know how to care for the land best and deliver nature-based solutions that produce environmental, social and economic value.
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Latest News
Echo Bay Sustainability Fund selects ALUS as first funding recipient to deliver reliable nature-based climate solutions
Philanthropic funding for climate change-related initiatives remains low at approximately 2% of global giving despite increasing severe climate-related weather events like wildfires, drought and flood. Echo Bay Sustainability Fund wants to help change that—starting...
ALUS Receives Funding for Farmer-Delivered Wetlands in Ontario
Farmers play a key role in delivering flood prevention and water quality improvements in Ontario.A wetland restoration project under construction in Middlesex County. Photo Credit: ALUS Middlesex.Toronto, ON, June 18, 2024 — Today, Ontario’s Minister of the...
ALUS Delivers Carbon Sequestration and Environmental Benefits for Bruce Power through Nature-based Projects
Bruce Power’s second annual New Acre™ Nature Investments report foregrounds carbon sequestration outcomes and environmental benefits produced by agricultural nature-based projects delivered by ALUS farmers in Bruce and Grey Counties. BRUCE and GREY COUNTY / TORONTO,...
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