A Nuffield Scholar and Senior Relationship Manager with FCC’s Indigenous financing team, Tatum Claypool is studying how Indigenous communities in other countries have navigated the systemic barriers that prevent them from growing agricultural businesses.

How Canada can support Indigenous farm entrepreneurs

Tatum Claypool, Nuffield scholar and FCC relationship manager, discusses historical barriers and current opportunities

For Claypool, Canada’s Indigenous communities are a relatively untapped resource when it comes to agricultural economic development. With favourable age demographics and a strong cultural connection with the land and agricultural production, developing farm and food enterprises would be a boon for communities where economic opportunities are few, as well as for Canadian agriculture as a whole