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

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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