Alberta Farmers Continue The Fight Against Global Hunger

Thirty nine groups of farmers in Alberta are helping the Canadian Foodgrains Bank in their fight against global hunger.

Southern Alberta Regional Coordinator with the Foodgrains Bank, Andre Visscher, says the region is home to about half of the Province's growing projects.

"A growing project is when a group of farmers get together and they grow a crop for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. They seed it, they spray it, they work the land and harvest it together then donate the proceeds to Foodgrains Bank."

Visscher says, they have growing projects in High River, Claresholm, Granum, Picture Butte and Lethbridge to name a few.

He says, most of the Southern Alberta projects had their crops off before the snowfall.

"In Central Alberta, it was different. In the last week of October, we harvested nine projects in one day."

Visscher adds the quality of the crops were a bit poorer this year because of the smoke during the growing season and the unusual wet fall.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank uses the money generated through the growing projects for food assistance, and agriculture, livelihood and nutrition projects in 40 countries.

The organization was also recently featured in the Charity Intelligence 2018 list of the top 10 charities in Canada.