foodgrains bank

Federal government provides major response to global hunger crisis

Oct 20, 2022 | 1:56pm

  The federal government is providing 14 million dollars to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank to help respond to the global hunger crisis. Foodgrains Bank executive director, Andy Harrington, says the funding will help provide access to emergency food services for over 100 thousand people in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. He says there has […]

Foodgrains Bank projects reach midway of growing season

Jul 21, 2020 | 4:50pm

More than 30 Canadian Foodgrains Bank projects in Saskatchewan are midway through the growing season. Volunteers plant crops, and inputs are donated by various companies. The provincial Foodgrains Bank representative Rick Block says all of the projects went ahead as scheduled and were not affected by COVID-19. By mid-March, he says supplies and planning for […]

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