National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program

One of the goals of the Growing Forward is to position Canada as the world leader in environmentally responsible production while improving air, water and soil quality and conserving biodiversity. To help ensure the agriculture industry is on the correct path to achieving this goal, and to help determine the impact policies and programs have on the environment, the Government of Canada established the National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program (NAHARP).

More than ever, achieving environmental sustainability in agriculture has become a pressing and complex challenge. In some sectors, environmental concerns pose a direct constraint to growth, and could increasingly affect the agricultural industry's ability to serve existing international markets, and to compete for new ones.

To manage these concerns effectively, it is important to first understand the pressures and opportunities that exist in terms of environmental sustainability.

Growing Forward, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative