User talk:DonaldRichardSands/Canadian Foodgrains Bank

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References

• Kives, Bartley (July 14, 2012). "Climate chaos: what the Sahel can teach us". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2012-08-01.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a humanitarian organization based in Winnipeg, raises money in Canada to spend on food security and sustainable-development projects in Niger and 34 other countries around the world.

• Cain, Emily, Canadian Food Grains Bank (July 9, 2012). "Appealing for donations". The Altona Red River Valley Echo. Retrieved 2012-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

A year ago, East Africa had a food crisis. The media covered it extensively. Millions of Canadians helped people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The Foodgrains Bank provided over $18 million of food assistance to 587,000 people in that region.

This year, the Sahel region of West Africa has a food crisis. The media has paid little attention. Over 18 million people face food shortages due to drought and late and erratic rains that have crippled harvests.

• Charlton, Mark W. (1992). The making of Canadian food aid policy. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN 0-7735-0937-2.

"The other NGO program is the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB). Initially started in 1976 under the auspices of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the program was expanded in 1983 to include six other Christian development agencies. The CGB gathers contributions from members, largely farmers who tend to contribute food commodities rather than cash. At first the emphasis was on gathering wheat from prairie farmers, but in the early 1980s this was expanded to include contributions of corn from eathern farmers for use in the Horn of Africa. CIDA has funded the value of CGB fund raising on a 3:1 basis up to a maximum of $16 million." p. 85

• December, 2001. Van Dusen, Anne (December 7, 2001). "Canada helps feed Afghanistan's hungry with Canadian food aid". Report, Canadian International Development Agency. Relief Web. Retrieved 2012-08-01.

International Cooperation Minister Maria Minna oversaw the loading of Canadian food aid in Montréal destined for Afghanistan. Twelve hundred metric tonnes of Canadian lentils shipped to the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran. The Red Crescent Society will take delivery and distribute the food to Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons along the Iranian/Afghan border. Shipment will help feed 400,000 people for six months.

Shipment is part of the 5,000 tonnes of wheat and lentils that will be sent to Afghanistan by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, with the financial support of the people of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Jim Cornelius, executive-director of the Foodgrains Bank, accompanied Minister Minna on her visit to Montréal.

CIDA provided $2.56 million for this initiative through a funding arrangement that sees the federal government match donations raised by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank by a ratio of 4-to-1. The donations raised by the Foodgrains Bank came in the form of product donated by Canadian farmers or cash gifts from the public.

In the last 10 years, CIDA has provided approximately $160 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, including $16 million since September 11. In 2001, approximately 5 million people were vulnerable to famine in Afghanistan and the region, while 3.5 million are living as refugees in surrounding countries and 1 million people were internally displaced. Afghanistan had the fourth highest child mortality rate in the world - one in four children died before the age of five.

External links

• Canadian Foodgrains Bank, home page.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank member agencies

Canadian Foodgrains Bank member agencies

• ADRA Canada (Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada)

www.adra.ca

• Canadian Baptist Ministries

www.cbmin.org

• Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace

www.devp.org

• Canadian Lutheran World Relief

www.clwr.org

• Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada

www.cmacan.org

• Christian Reformed World Relief Committee

www.crwrc.org

• Emergency Relief & Development Overseas (Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada)

www.erdo.ca

• Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada

www.emcc.ca

• Mennonite Central Committee Canada

www.mcc.org

• Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Canada

www.ncmc.ca

• Presbyterian World Service & Development

www.presbyterian.ca

• Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund (Anglican Church of Canada)

www.pwrdf.org

• The Salvation Army

www.salvationarmy.ca

• The United Church of Canada

www.united-church.ca

• World Relief Canada

www.wrcanada.org

Source

Breaking Bread, Spring, 2012

http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/BB%20spring%202012%20web.pdf

Breaking Bread is a publicaton of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, published twice a year.

Editor: Emily Cain. Designer: Roberta Fast Printed in Canada by CP Printing Solutions, Winnipeg, MB.

Food growing projects

• World map and food growing projects

http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/mapspread.pdf

News

• Funke, Tara (October 28, 2011). $125 Million Agreement A Difference Maker For Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Portage online.