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Program directory · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Science, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability

Program code
ABG00 (AGR)
Core responsibility
An innovative and sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Science, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2010-11: $360MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2011-12: $266MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2012-13: $303MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2013-14: $442MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2014-15: $576MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2015-16: $600MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2016-17: $623MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability 2017-18: $603MScience, Innovation, Adoption and Sustainability
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Science, Innovation, Adoption and SustainabilityThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$3.77B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2011-12Spending $266M, against $360M in 2010-11 (−26%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $442M, against $303M in 2012-13 (+46%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Employees (FTEs) 2,441, against 1,776 in 2013-14 (+37%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $576M, against $442M in 2013-14 (+30%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $442M2013-142014-15: $576M2014-152015-16: $600M2015-162016-17: $623M2016-172017-18: $603M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$442M
2014-15—$576M
2015-16—$600M
2016-17—$623M
2017-18—$603M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,4882013-14: 1,7762013-142014-15: 2,4662014-15: 2,4412014-152015-16: 2,2942015-16: 2,4392015-162016-17: 2,5262016-17: 2,5262016-172017-18: 2,5562017-18: 2,5942017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-141,4881,776
2014-152,4662,441
2015-162,2942,439
2016-172,5262,526
2017-182,5562,594

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.