Challenging the Rules: Global Hunger and the Politics of Food

World
Food Day is October 16th, an annual celebration that began in
1981 and is now recognized in 150 countries as a day for raising
public awareness concerning global food issues. October 16th also
marks the founding of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), which took place in Quebec City in 1945. Every
year, Oxfam Canada, as part of its ongoing work in promoting the
right to a sustainable livelihood, produces educational materials,
conducts workshops and holds public events to raise Canadians'
awareness of global food security. A key objective of Oxfam Canada's
World Food Day work is not only to increase awareness but engage
Canadians in taking actions to reduce hunger and poverty locally
and internationally.

To download
the World Food Day Kit, click on the headlines in blue. This year's
World Food Day Kit includes the following sections:

1)
Challenging the Rules: Global Hunger and the Politics of Food
(Cover Page) (pdf
document)

2)
Contents Page and About Oxfam Canada and World Food Day (pdf
document)

3)
The Issues (pdf document)

What Rules
and policies cause hunger?

• Economic
  Policies
• International
  Trade Rules
• Corporate
  market Power

How do the
WTO and FTAA see Food?

4)
Solutions (pdf document)

What can solve
hunger?
What is Canada doing in it's aid for agriculture?
What should Canada do?

5)
What Are Oxfam's Partners Doing? (pdf document)

Zimbabwe Project
Trust
Zimbabwe Backgrounder
Good Zimbabwe Food

Ethiopia -
Women Headed Household Project
Ethiopia Backgrounder
Good Ethiopian Food

Nicaragua
- FENACOOP
Nicaragua Backgrounder
Good Nicaraguan Food

6)
Activities for schools and community groups (pdf
document)

7)
Sources (pdf document)

Thanks
for your interest in World Food Day!