Agriculture and Irrigation - Request for Proposal - 2025 Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Tracking Survey

Agriculture and Irrigation (AGI) is looking for a contractor to conduct the 2025 Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Tracking Survey (ESATS). The contractor will be responsible for updating, conducting and analyzing current survey data and previous results of Albertan primary agriculture operator’s perceptions about and implementation/use of environmentally sustainable agriculture (ESA) practices. This survey is a data source for GOA and AGI reporting. This survey provides feedback and needs assessment information for ministry policies, programs and services supporting environmentally sustainable agriculture in Alberta. The ESATS is a long-standing survey, therefore consistency and continuity in the methodology is important to allow for comparison to previous years including 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023. This project supports AGI in demonstrating accountability and transparency to Albertans by indicating how AGI’s policies, programs and services support the agriculture industry in achieving sustainability, which encompasses economic viability, environmental stewardship and social values. Project Objectives The overall objective of the ESATS is to measure farm-level use of ESA practices and Decision Making Support Tools and Resources by primary agriculture farm operators/producers in the previous production year. • Measure rates of adoption of ESA practices relevant to Ministry policies programs and services areas. • Measure awareness and readiness of Alberta producers to meet current and emerging ESA policies and initiatives that have expectations on agriculture production systems. • Compare, where possible, the survey results to previous survey results and trends. Project Background Document To see previous reporting of the ESATS, vendors are recommended to review the previous ESATS reports, which are available at: https://www.alberta.ca/environmentally-sustainable-agriculture-tracking-survey.aspx