Canadian Foodgrains Bank

$125,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $3.02 for every person in Canada ≈ 1,615 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
International Development Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2016-2017
Agreement period
July 14, 2016 – December 31, 2021
Reference
dfatd-maecd:GC-2017-Q2-0006

Published purpose

This grant represents Canada's 2016-2020 institutional support for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s (CFGB) response to humanitarian crises around the world. The CFGB uses these funds, along with other donations, to achieve its mandate of reducing hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Canada's support to CFGB helps provide food assistance to ease the suffering of people in emergency and acute hunger situations worldwide and help communities rebuild their livelihoods. Canada and CFGB have been feeding hungry people, saving lives and building livelihoods around the world over thirty years.

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This grant provides Canadian institutional support to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank for humanitarian food assistance and livelihood rebuilding in developing countries facing hunger and malnutrition.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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