Final report – Local and Integrated Food System in Montreal (SALIM). Project history, outcomes, and lessons learned

This document presents the findings and impact assessment of the Local and Integrated Food System in Montreal (SALIM) program from 2020 to 2025.

As a flagship project of the food component of Montréal en commun, SALIM had an ambitious goal: to improve access to healthy, locally sourced food for Montrealers.

Designed as a social innovation lab on a Montreal-wide scale, SALIM has supported 15 projects and mobilized 147 partners, including 81 involved in pooling projects. Five projects were co-sponsored by Collectif Récolte, in addition to the financial and strategic support provided to multiple initiatives. 

These experiments made it possible to test collaborative solutions: pooling human resources, storage space, vehicles and digital tools, as well as innovative marketing and procurement models. Some initiatives are continuing today, while others have not been successful in their initial form, but have nevertheless generated valuable lessons for the ecosystem.

This report contains the following:

• the context in which the program was implemented;
• its objectives and theory of change;
• the results observed;
• the main lessons learned from the five years of the program.

For more details on the methodology, please refer to the Annexe méthodologique and our Guide pour l’évaluation, la mesure d’impact et la captation d’apprentissage (both documents are only available in French).

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