World Food Day 2013

Oxfam Action Corps has been busy this World Food Day!  The Oxfam Action Corps held - and continue to hold - events around the country, e.g. packing the house for a 'Land Rush' screening in Boston, and featuring Jim Morris of the Indiana Pacers at the Indianapolis event.  Volunteers helped Oxfam stage stunts at key Coke and Pepsi locations in the US, while more than 100,000 people signed our petition via our ally "Sum of Us." And our Action Corps team expanded Oxfam's presence at the World Food Prize in Iowa, led by staffer Jim French, including tabling at a Hunger Banquet for nearly 300 people!

Kijoolu Kaliya (center), a member of the Maasai people of Tanzania has led a women’s mobilization to save their land from a foreign investor who wants to convert it to a private hunting reserve.  “Everybody in this world deserves a seat at the table,” she said.  Pictured here in Marshalltown, Iowa, with Oxfam staff members Mwanahamisi Salimu and Brian Rawson.  (photo: Brian Rawson)

Mwanahamisi Salimu of Tanzania shows John, a farmer in Marshalltown, Iowa, how sweet potato greens are prepared for eating.  John harvests some 200 pounds of sweet potato from the community farm at the Marshalltown Community College, saying that he intends to set aside what he’ll eat for the season and then “give the rest to the poor.”  (photo: Brian Rawson)

Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University Cornelia Flora are pictured in support of Oxfam’s petition urging major food companies to help stop land grabs, at the World Food Prize, Des Moines, Iowa.  (photo:  Brian Rawson)

In Albuquerque, NM, Sara and Jasmine of the Oxfam Action Corps dine at one of the area restaurants supporting World Food Day by distributing Oxfam placemats and campaign materials to customers. (photos: Kathy Chavez)

Celebrating WFD in Chicago with (left to right) Nancy Jones of Chicago Fair Trade Coalition, Adam Farag of Oxfam Action Corps, Adam Olson of Oxfam America, and Tom Leavitt chef at White Oak Gourmet and Oxfam Action Corps.

In Ames, Iowa, renowned author and activist Francis Moore Lappé joins Oxfam Action Corps members from Boston, San Francisco, Des Moines, and NYC.  (Left to right Suad Maow, Yoshiko Hill, Amy Luebbert, Francis Moore Lappe, Elizabeth Norman, and Brittany Wilson)

Taking the message to the Des Moines Farmers Market with Oxfam partners from Tanzania and Uganda, volunteers with the Oxfam Action Corps, and staff.  (photo: Sarah Kalloch)

At Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City
, Oxfam staff and volunteers mount a giant warning label.  (Photos: Vasia Markides)

In Atlanta, telling Coca-Cola to stop land grabs!