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From left, MP Doug Eyolfson, Bob Granke, chair of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Minister Jim Carr, MP Terry Duguid, and MP Dan Vandal were on hand to announce $125 million Canadian Foodgrains Bank funding.

Funding continued for Foodgrains Bank

The federal government commitment ensures stable funding for the next five years

By Shannon VanRaes November 14, 2016

The federal government is renewing its partnership with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, promising $125 million to the organization over the next five years. “I think this is an opportunity for the government of Canada to support the wonderful work of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and also to say to all of those farmers who are

Comment

Friday, October 16 is World Food Day

Even in one of the richest countries in the world, one in seven people do not have enough to eat

By Fao Release October 16, 2015

World Food Day is a day of action against hunger. On October 16, people around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate hunger in our lifetime. Because when it comes to hunger, the only acceptable number in the world is zero. World Food Day celebrates the creation of the Food and Agriculture

Crops, Livestock

Experts call for less waste and less meat

Kale or steak? Change in diet key to UN plan to end hunger by 2030

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 11, 2015

Rome — In trendy, hipster London or New York, it’s all about juicing, vegan diets and snacking on kale crisps. Thousands of miles away, in Nairobi or Bogota, the middle classes are more likely to reach for roasted goat or a juicy steak. Later this month, world leaders are set to endorse a U.N. goal

Crops, International news

Moving from famine relief to relief from famine

Ethiopia has made solid gains thanks to a co-ordinated attack on the root causes of hunger

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2015

Famine relief was a hit in the 1980s — literally — as pop music stars donated the proceeds of their collaboration on the song “Feed the World” to help feed starving people in Ethiopia. It was a sincere effort that raised millions and was part of a global response by governments and aid and development

Haroon Akram-Lodhi speaks about the causes of world hunger.  Photo: Shannon VanRaes

News

Population growth not the cause of world hunger: economist

By Shannon VanRaes November 27, 2013

For some the equation is simple — more people on the planet means more people go hungry. Not for Haroon Akram-Lodhi. The economist and Trent University professor who specializes in the political economy of agrarian change in developing capitalist countries, says equating a growing population with global hunger is not only incorrect, but creates a

International news, Opinion

Thank you for 30 years!

By Jim Cornelius April 18, 2013

April 13, 2013 marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). Throughout this year, we wish to celebrate and thank the many people and organizations that have created, built and supported the CFGB over the years — the early visionaries, the practical people who worked out the mechanics, the many farmers

Opinion

Investing in the future

By Laura Rance-Unger February 23, 2013

Pedro Medrano Rojas, acting assistant executive director, partnership and governance services of the World Food Program (WFP), offers a sobering observation on the Millennium Goal commitment to reduce by half the number of malnourished people in the world by 2015. “We’re not going to make it,” he says as he begins an interview. In fact,

International news, News

Canada wins high praise for its contribution to food security

By Dave Bedard, Laura Rance-Unger February 15, 2013

Canada has won high praise from a senior official with the UN’s World Food Program for becoming one of the first countries to make its minimum nine-figure annual pledge up front as it formally adopts a new international treaty. “Canada is one of the strongest supporters of the World Food Program,” said Pedro Medrano Rojas,

International news, News, Opinion

Apply what we already know works

By Kanayo F. Nwanze January 4, 2013

The drought-prone South Gansu province of China suffers from limited water and severe soil erosion. It is not a hospitable environment for food production. Yet, despite these harsh conditions, farmers are producing and selling more food. They are feeding themselves and their families. And their incomes are steadily rising. In degraded areas of Burkina Faso,

Opinion

A giving community

By Laura Rance-Unger December 6, 2012

As a kid growing up on the farm, each season came with its unique set of memories. It may have been only once that we were all conscripted Thanksgiving Monday into digging the remaining rows of potatoes out of the cold, snow-speckled mud, but it was a memory maker. Other events however, were routine, such

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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