The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is concerned with the findings of a new report.

The report from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations shows the number of hungry people in the world is on the rise for the third year in a row, with climate variability and conflict being the key drivers of this growth.

In 2017 to 2018, almost half of the Foodgrains Bank's programming went to places like South Sudan, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Part of their fight against hunger includes training small scale farmers around to world how to adapt their farming to better withstand severe weather conditions.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank's Executive Director, Jim Cornelius, says they're deeply concerned that after decades of progress, we are now falling back in the fight against hunger.

"It is more important than ever that we continue to work toward the goal of a wold without hunger. This means finding ways to reduce conflict and helping vulnerable people increase their resiliency to climate variability and extremes," He says. "We need to equip people and communities to prepare for and adapt to climate-related emergencies and changes."

In 2017 to 2018, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank provided over $37 million of assistance for over 800,000 people in 34 countries.

 

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