Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) is a partnership of Canadian Churches and Church-based agencies working to end global hunger. CFGB works towards this goal in conjunction with its members and partners around the world by supporting international programs to meet immediate food needs, reduce malnutrition, and achieve sustainable food security. It also influences improvements in national and international policies to end global hunger and strengthen the efforts of Canadians to meet this goal. In February 2019 CFGB conducted a tour for several Canadian supporters to view several of its projects in Ethiopia. A summary of the tour is presented in the accompanying slide share presentation.

1. Canadian Food Grain Bank
Ethiopia Projects Tour
February 2019
Part One
Addis Ababa to Debre Markos

2. Early Saturday a.m. Arrival
Bole International Airport Addis Ababa

3. First of Sam’s Briefing Sessions
Sam Vander Ende is CFGB Regional
Representative for Ethiopia

4. Cultural Orientation & Perspectives
on Poverty By Desert Rose

5. CFGB Projects Tour: Addis Ababa to Debre Markos, Debre Tabor and Lalibela

6. Travelling Overland to Debre Markos
Leading Down to Nile Gorge

7. Headwaters of Nile River
(Known as Blue Nile)
Andree Visscher Photo

8. CFGB 2019 ETH Tour Group
Nile Gorge in Background

9. An Innocent (Nile Gorge) On-Looker

10. Bottom of (Blue) Nile Gorge
Andre Visscher Photo

11. Lunch Stop Vicinity of Nile Gorge

12. Coffee Ceremony is Traditional ETH Welcome

13. Typical Amhara Region Landscape
in Dry Season
Andree Visscher Photo

14. Bringing Home the (Teff) Crop
To Be Threshed and Winnowed

15. Early February Begins Post-Harvest Period
Dry Season Taking Hold

16. Threshing Teff
As It Was Done + 1,000 Years Ago and Still Today

17. Winnowing Teff
Andree Visscher Photo
Andree Visscher Photo

18. Threshed Grain (or Teff) Headed to Market

19. Migbarey Senay Children and Family Support
Organization (MSCFSO)
Debre Markos
Mr. Meheretu Executive Director/Founding Member
MSCFSO (Pictured With Allan & Lydia Sorflaten Truro Nova Scotia)

20. Project Manager Yihenew Demessie Explains Key
Components of the Migbarey Senay (MFCFSO) Project

21. Migbarey Senay (MSCFSO) Project Description
• Land degradation/hillsides denuded of tree cover/land
erosion → deficient soil fertility → less farmland/grazing land
available for households
• Individual farm families face up to 4 month food gap shortage
each year
• Project uses cash-for-work/food-for-work on watershed
rehabilitation activities including conservation farming
(minimum tillage, green manure cover crops) and hillside
reforestation using seedlings from on-site tree nursery.
• Has benefited over 2,000 farm family households with
improved food security and 900 landless youth in the cash-for-
work activities. These benefits overall have positively affected
more than 12,000 persons in the Amhara region.

22. 1st Morning of Migbarey Senay (MSCFSO)
Project Visit

23. Three Migbarey Field Staff Members With Project
Manager Yihenew Demessie (on Right)
In Background Are Dennis Reimer, Hudson
Bay SK and Bob Turner, Winnipeg MB

24. Migbarey Senay Participating Farmers

25. Teff is Staple Food Crop
Project Mgr. Yehenew Explains
Teff Cropping To Dennis Reimer
Hudson Bay SK.
Teff is Native to the Northern
Highlands and is a Staple Food
Crop Throughout Ethiopia.

26. CFGB Participants View Conservation
Farming Practices
And Gully Erosion Control Techniques
Using Check Dams

27. Migbarey Senay Watershed
Rehabilitation
Degraded Land Restored/ Soil Fertility Improved

28. MSCFSO Field Supervisor With Lupin
Plant/Legume Seed Pods In Hand

29. Sam Vander Ende
With Migbarey Senay Participating Farmer
Sam is CFGB Field Representative for Ethiopia

30. Free Range Cattle Can Create Problems
For In-Season Cropping
Note: All Land in ETH is Owned By the State

31. MSCFSO Program Manager Yihenew
Chats With Chris Lea of Manitou MB

32. Three Participating Farmers With Field Staff
Members and Tyler Barmanovich Glenlea MB

33. Migbarey Senay Project Field Staff
With Lydia Sorflaten Brookfield NS

34. Approaching Look-Off
to Migbarey Senay Watershed Basin

35. Looking Down at Area of Migbarey
Watershed Rehabilitation
Andree Vissscher Photo

36. Project Staff Discuss Watershed Rehabilitation
With CFGB Tour Participants

37. Lower Reaches of Migbarey Senay
Watershed Rehabilitation
Andree Visscher Photo

38. Tree Seedling Nursery For Migbarey
Senay Watershed Reforestation

39. Young Eucalyptus Trees For Reforestation

40. Jeanne Turner Winnipeg MB and
Andre Visscher Edmonton AB
At Site of Migbarey Senay Tree Seedling Nursery

41. Storage Crop Losses a Major Problem
Hermetically Sealed Grain Storage
Tanks For Trial Use at Migbarey Senay

42. Traditional Ethiopian Hospitality Extended
To Us By MSCFSO Staff at Debre Markos