World hunger levels rise for sixth consecutive year: report

World hunger levels rise for sixth consecutive year: report

“This is not the time for us to turn our backs” says Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth consecutive year in 2024, affecting more than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories, according to a U.N. report released on Friday.







People gather around trucks carrying humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on October 21, 2023. The first of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip on October 21 through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, said AFP correspondents on both sides. Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto.

Foodgrains Bank calls for urgent aid in Gaza

Humanitarian groups have had limited access to the besieged area

Over 6,000 men, women and children in Israel and Gaza have died in two weeks of conflict, the Foodgrains Bank said. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced.  As a member of the Humanitarian Coalition, the Foodgrains Bank is working with partner organizations and local groups to bring humanitarian assistance to the area.

Muslima and her son Ducale, 2, both residents of Luuq, Somalia. Ducale has been recovering from acute malnourishment since February.

Grim hunger conditions remain in Somalia

Cuts to the federal aid budget are a step in the wrong direction amid immense need, aid organizations such as the Canadian Foodgrains Bank say

Hunger among people in Somalia is rampant after years of drought and conflict, and the care offered by relief groups is life-saving, according to a Canadian Foodgrains Bank staff member who is fresh off a trip to the region. “It’s absolutely critical that we can provide this kind of support in this setting,” said Stefan Epp-Koop,

Paul Hagerman plants seeds with a farmer in Shasha, Congo.

Foodgrains Bank asks supporters to lobby feds for aid

Along with reducing hunger, developing resilient food and farming systems can increase peace and prosperity in struggling communities

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is asking its supporters to write to federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland and ask her to include more money for international aid in the 2023 budget. “We want her to know Canadians care about doing more to support small-scale farmers in building climate resilient food systems,” wrote policy advisor Andrew Defor in a


Winnipeg’s Natural Bakery is one of the many corporate donors to Harvest Manitoba.

Farmers help fight off hunger this holiday season

Food banks and aid charities are facing serious spikes in demand and Manitoba farmers are pitching in

Tis the season when feasts usually weigh down the tables, but this year a much greater number of cupboards in Manitoba are bare. Food bank use has never been higher in the province, according to Harvest Manitoba CEO Vince Barletta. The Winnipeg-based charity supports about 360 rural and urban food banks. Barletta said those food

Naomi Johnson with Ramesh Babu, a representative of partner organization EFICOR, at COP27 in Egypt. Johnson is a senior policy advisory with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Foodgrains bank rep pleased with COP27 ‘loss and damage’ fund

Canada has yet to fulfill all past climate finance commitments, but formal agreements allow organizations to pressure the feds for follow-through

A Canadian Foodgrains Bank representative says the “loss and damage” fund countries agreed to during COP27 is a good step but there’s concern that countries will simply divert existing adaptation funding. Naomi Johnson is a senior policy advisor with the foodgrains bank. She attended COP27, a congress of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate