Environmental Stewardship through Ecosystem Services
What We Do
ALUS provides expertise, resources and direct financial support to communities where farmers and ranchers build nature-based solutions on their land to deliver ecosystem services to sustain agriculture, help build community resilience and fight climate change and biodiversity loss for the benefit of future generations.
Community Projects
ALUS partnerships help build vibrant communities by implementing the program through a Partnership Advisory Committee (PAC) made up of local farmers, community stakeholders and other NGOs. This allows each community program to address specific local environmental challenges and work collaboratively towards implementing sustainable solutions. ALUS provides financial and technical support for the implementation of these projects and annual payments to its participants to ensure the ongoing stewardship of each of their ALUS projects.
Community Projects
ALUS partnerships help build vibrant communities by implementing the program through a Partnership Advisory Committee (PAC) made up of local farmers, community stakeholders and other NGOs. This allows each community program to address specific local environmental challenges and work collaboratively towards implementing sustainable solutions. ALUS provides financial and technical support for the implementation of these projects and annual payments to its participants to ensure the ongoing stewardship of each of their ALUS projects.
Ecosystem Services
ALUS network consists of more than 1,600 farmers and ranchers in 38 communities who deliver ecosystem services in their communities, such as cleaner air, cleaner water, carbon sequestration, erosion control, flood and drought mitigation, pollinator and wildlife habitat. On more than 46,000 acres, these farmers and ranchers restore wetlands, install riparian buffers, plant windbreaks and ecobuffers, manage sustainable drainage systems, create pollinator habitat and establish other ecologically beneficial projects.
Innovation & Technology
ALUS provides participating communities with innovative technology and data infrastructures and tools. With these tailored solutions, ALUS captures detailed information about the benefits of ecosystem projects across the country, quantifying carbon sequestration, nutrient capture and biodiversity benefits. These data and technologies can then be applied to make strategic decisions about projects to ensure they deliver maximum ecological and financial benefit to the community.
Innovation & Technology
ALUS provides participating communities with innovative technology and data infrastructures and tools. With these tailored solutions, ALUS captures detailed information about the benefits of ecosystem projects across the country, quantifying carbon sequestration, nutrient capture and biodiversity benefits. These data and technologies can then be applied to make strategic decisions about projects to ensure they deliver maximum ecological and financial benefit to the community.
ALUS by the Numbers
2022 Snapshot of ALUS’ On the Ground Impact
Active provinces
ALUS communities +3 since last year
Farmers and ranchers participating +390 since last year
Acres of wetland ecosystems +6,919 since last year
Acres of pollinator habitat +8,550 since last year
Acres reforested with native trees and shrubs +1,243 since last year
Acres of ALUS land +10,006 since last year
Invested by ALUS +$4M since last year
Thanks a million to farmers, ranchers and communities multiplying our investment on the ground
ALUS Community Projects
A Long-Term Investment in Your Farm
A Profile of ALUS Norfolk Participant, Carl Atkinson.Carl Atkinson on his farm with a wetland in the background.Carl Atkinson and his wife Rhonda have been farming Ginseng in Norfolk County, Ontario, for 40 years. Although retirement is on the horizon, he’s currently...
Stewardship Ethic Puts Trees on the Landscape for People and the Environment
ALUS Middlesex participant Phil Moddle incorporates conventional farming, agritourism and environmental stewardship into Arrowwood Farm and Events Phil Moddle with a white pine seedling on his farm in Middlesex County, Ontario. The sapling is a part of an ALUS tree...
Seed Superstar: Marc Bercier Grows Environmental Outcomes
Building on family legacy, Marc Bercier manages the landscape for the benefit of his community and future generations. ALUS team members visit Marc's project in St.Isidore during the October 2022 Eastern Jamboree. Marc Bercier is a famer and businessman...