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After learning conservation agriculture techniques, Asnakech Zema saw her corn yields increase more than tenfold.
Farmit Manitoba

Sustaining hope: Conservation agriculture making gains in Ethiopia

Norway partners with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank to continue to support east-African farmers

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Each year, Ethiopian farmers lose 1.5 billion metric tons of topsoil, Frew Beriso said, quoting the number from a 2008 study. As a result, whatever investment of nutrients exceedingly expensive for smallholder farmers — are put into the soil are in vain. Moisture is the other top issue. This year the spring rains are delayed,
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Canada shuts to seven African countries’ travelers

Latest COVID-19 variant spurs decision

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is closing its borders to foreign travelers who have recently been to seven southern African nations to help stop the spread of a newly identified variant of COVID-19, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters Friday. The European Union, the United States and Britain are among those tightening border controls as
‘Calling this a challenging environment for investment would be an understatement. But going elsewhere is not an option, as that’s where hunger reigns.’ – Paul Hagerman, CFGB.
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Comment: Dear Elon Musk – A Foodgrains response to Tesla founder

Just what would it really take to end world hunger?

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Dear Elon Musk, Thanks for your Twitter offer of $6 billion to solve world hunger. Like the World Food Program (to whom you made the offer), Canadian Foodgrains Bank has a solid track record on overcoming hunger. Last year, nearly a million people affected by hunger in 33 countries ate better as a result of
File photo of a soybean plantation in Brazil. (Mailson Pignata/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Other

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

U.S. acres may have already hit ceiling: AgResource chief

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Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom in soyoil use, reinforcing a
Foodgrains Bank program to bring COVID relief to African countries
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Foodgrains Bank program to bring COVID relief to African countries

The pandemic has made bad situations worse in countries struggling with conflict, displacement and economic disaster

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A $10-million federal grant will help Canadian Foodgrains Bank partners bring aid to several African countries affected by COVID-19, the organization announced May 27. “(The pandemic) has made a bad situation worse,” said program manager Stefan Epp-Koop. “Many of these countries have conflict or political instability, high levels of displacement — people being forced to
Robert Gikunda trains Mary Karimi, a project participant, on how to use smartphones for data collection at a hotel in Mukothima, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya on October 2, 2020.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Recovery will be a long haul, says Canadian Foodgrains Bank

In the midst of deepening worldwide need, Canadian donors stepped up

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For some families in countries without social safety nets, surviving the COVID-19 pandemic has forced them to eat less or sell assets that might have helped them recover, says the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. “The numbers of people who will be experiencing hunger are going up,” said Musu Taylor-Lewis, director of resources and public engagement at
Jim Cornelius visits with Victoria Loki and her baby, Cecilia, in South Sudan in 2015.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Always on mission

Outgoing Canadian Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius reflects on a career of international development

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The food aid was two months late. Niger was in the grip of drought and for many complicated reasons, the food aid the Canadian Foodgrains Bank had ordered had not reached the village Jim Cornelius was visiting that morning. He sat under a tree with a woman and her child. As she told him they

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