With harvest underway across Canada, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is welcoming a four-year renewal of funding from the Government of Canada. A $100 million grant announced by Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen on Thursday extends the long-running agreement that sees donations to the charity — many coming from farms and agribusinesses — matched by… Read More
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COVID-19 has impacted many stakeholders in the agriculture industry, including the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB); but they have succeeded in a surprising way. Musu Taylor-Lewis, director of resources and public engagement at CFB, joined Shaun Haney recently to talk about how the pandemic has affected their efforts and the progress they’ve made fundraising this year…. Read More
Len Siemens, one of the founding members of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, passed away on April 25, 2019, at the age of 93. Back in the mid-1970s, Len Siemens was part of a small group who created the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Food Bank into which farmers could donate grain for shipment overseas. In the early… Read More
There is natural tendency for people to focus on contention or what seems to be wrong with the world. It is nice, then, to hear about people, communities, corporations, and non-governmental organizations that are working together to make things better. One such project is the Balgonie Harvest of Hope. Franck Groeneweg, an Edgeley-area farmer is… Read More
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) has responded to concerns from farmer supporters about an article commissioned by the organization that was published in The Hill Times newspaper. The column, written by third-party author Sophia Murphy, argued the Canadian government should expand the scope of its proposed national food policy to account for the global impact… Read More
The federal government has renewed its funding for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, committing $125 million over the next five years to help CFGB provide food assistance in parts of the world suffering from conflict and natural disasters. The federal government has provided funding for CFGB since its inception in 1983. Winnipeg MP and Minister of… Read More
The Manitoba Agricultural Museum and Canadian Foodgrains Bank teamed up with over 600 volunteers from 100 Canadian communities to attempt a record-breaking harvest this week, at Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry. Over two years of planning culminated into 139 (of 148) threshing machines harvesting wheat for 15 minutes at the Museum… Read More
World Food Day has been observed annually, every October 16th, since 1981. The aim of the event is to raise awareness of world hunger and poverty and to inspire solutions for world change. Canada has a responsibility to help farmers in developing countries where people don’t have enough to eat, according to a survey of Canadians conducted… Read More
Last week the Nexera Thank You Train made a stop in Lethbridge, Alberta. The stop is one of many across the west and is a collaboration with Dow AgroSciences and the Grey Cup 100 train and aims to thank Dow’s Nexera Canola growers across the West. This year, in a partnership with the Canadian Foodgrains… Read More