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Canadian Foodgrains Bank & CRWRC
What is the Canadian Foodgrains Bank? A Christian response to hunger
• CFGB is a partnership of 15 Canadian church agencies, which together seek a Christian response to hunger by
• Ending Hunger by supporting partnerships and activities overseas, influencing necessary changes in public policies, and deepening the involvement of Canadians
How does CFGB work?
$20 million in CIDA matching funds available to member
agencies at a 4:1 ratio
Food Security
Fund
CFGB General
Fund
Member Agency Accounts
$8.4 million
Types of CFGB funded projects
• Food Aid – providing food to people in need
• Seed Distribution – rehabilitating lost crop
• Food Security – assisting households and communities to produce food for themselves or to earn the income they need to purchase food
• Complementary Nutrition - activities that deal with other factors that affect nutrition and health
How does CFGB work with CRWRC
$
CRWRC’s CFGB Account 07/08
Donated Grain Value: $614,502Grain tonnage: 2,781
Cash Donations: $396,745
Total Donations: $1,011,247
Leveraging our equity
Mozambique
35 projects in 16 countries
15,570 MT of food to 540,000 people
CRWRC Programming
Increasing Food PricesThere are about 1.2 billion people who live on $1 a day or less. Many use 80-90 percent of that income to obtain food.
Price Increases, March 2007 – March 2008
Corn
RiceSoya
Wheat
Source: Bloomberg, except rice: FAO/Jackson Son & Co
FOOD FOR WORK PROJECT IN MALI
MALI
ALGERIA
MAURITANIA
WESTERN SAHARA
SENEGAL NIGER
GUINEA
LIBERIA
SIERRA LEONE IVORY COAST
BURKINA FASO
GH
ANA
NIG
ERIA
BEN
INTO
GO
Fast Facts:Population: 11,995,402 Literacy rate: 46.4% Life expectancy: 49.5 Population below poverty line: 64% Religions: Muslim 90%, indigenous beliefs 9%, Christian 1%
In July 2007 floods destroyed or damaged dams and agricultural wells. The food-for-work project repaired two dams, rebuilt 211 garden ploys and 596 agricultural wells.
Bamako
Mopti
THANK YOU
For more information, contact:
CRWRC- Canada3475 Mainway
Burlington, ON L7R 3Y8905-336-2920
1-800-730-3490
www.crwrc.org/cfgb
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