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use blue band module to prepare food for children it's that healthy next up the advantages of really coastal kept. right for you. when you cook for your family royko will help you give your meal and rich flavor that day you start using royko will be the day your husband will come home on something he won't cheat on he'll come straight home. yeah i am. finally as a recommendation to replace fresh foods such as vegetables with royko to save money for the women here it's a plausible argument. three right. three cents each cost you nine cents but when you go to the market to buy tomatoes and onions you pay forty five cents
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so you save thirty six cents with reichl we can use that money to buy something else. these sums old very small but it's still a worthwhile business for unilever. you're unilever portrays itself as a leader in efforts to empower women in poor regions maybe that's why for four consecutive years the company was voted kenya's top employee. we asked unilever to respond to the course participants accusations and for an interview on its corporate social responsibility and marketing strategist. but we would turn down with this explanation. unfortunately we are not in a position to punch take in this exercise due to potential commercial sensitive it
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is that may be involved. women in kenya in the slums dream of having a job like thirty seven year old patricio who goes door to door for nestlé in sound paulo but the job comes with financial risks she has to give customers a full month to pay for their purchases. i. sometimes people don't want to pay but i have to pay the nestle distributor on the fifteenth and the thirtieth of the month if others don't pay it comes out of my own pocket. if she sells a lot the trays here can and up to three hundred euros a month that's hardly more than the legal minimum wage in brazil. under this business model best selling deborah products and dessert so organized in kits depending on the size and contents the kit cost between four and two of your rows
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it's good for everyone the vendor sells more but customers pay less as a bonus the regular treats for children let him have some so he grows up to big and strong for him. but. he so demands i know. today is children's day a public holiday in brazil most families don't out sweets and have a nice meal. maria de silva is family is no exception this is one occasion on which this poor family goes grocery shopping at the big supermarket for many years maria has put i'm healthy food on the family table she slowly trying to change the eating habits but it's not easy. but then i've been seeing i've developed an awareness now but you try telling
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your children they're not allowed to eat sweets anymore and don't drink cola don't he. red with margarine though that's all we can afford not. that's why we buy processed foods and because it's cheaper but. it's a market with huge potential in europe on the other hand growth a stagnated for years. industrially processed food accounts for around sixty percent of food consumed in western europe and north america and brazil down figures only twenty five percent but it's rising. not till the c.e.o. is fifty six maria is forty nine they're untrained as clean as they've managed to improve the family situation a little. children
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are allowed to tuck in and enjoy the sweets but to get there as a local treat the chocolate prelim made of manager rain sweetened milk cocoa powder and chocolate sprinkles many of stresses that today's an exception but the family is finding it impossible to wean itself of cheap processed food. my said when the children see these foods in ads they want to eat them we end up buying the cookies with the filling the children want all of these things including all the sweet milk products we know it's unhealthy but we are swayed by the advertising that the consumer protection organization idec tries to counter advertising to adverse impact on apollo blames the economic power enjoyed by food come from rooms brazil has strict consumer protection laws but companies circumvent them you know advertising for example for. this kind of promotes are linked to.
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that they are willing to me and willing to be a part of it so when you can buy just kind of products it means that you are part of this. today nutritionist eileen brown dao is out who the group of women from the favela at the market she's teaching them to compare prices for vegetables and processed foods she uses the nutritional guidelines published by the brazilian health ministry as a teaching tool not all nutritionist received the book we only got a few. i only have a because i took part in advanced training workshops you can download the book on my. too but poor people don't have access to the internet. because again this is one third of. the guidelines to international attention but the target group it was designed for hardly heard about it eileen wants the women to recall the traditional
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recipes they grew up with. and we want to get these women to return to traditional ways of cooking to give them a new perspective on what we eat every day and they are responsible for the dietary habits of the people around them they have a big influence on our families the women are poor they often have no education drugs and crime compound the problems faced by many families a healthy diet is not a priority. they are standing at this fruit stall and they believe that one euro thirty for three pieces of fruit is too expensive because they can get an entire packet of cookies for thirty cents they think it's more cost effective to buy the cookies. the companies appeared to grasp that the products that paddling are contributing to a social problem. in the country of two hundred
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million forty million brazilians are overweight fourteen million are diagnosed with type two diabetes. as initiated its own health program in schools in brazil it's overseen by the nestlé foundation the nutria program is designed to teach school children how to eat a healthy diet the teaching materials a colorful and embarked with the company logo. their relation of the brand with the materials in the school is a mallu for the company you know nothing is more respect they are things they can be seen as more. just for. who have. nation there they are contributing to solve the problem this year the program was recognized as a public policy and then when he said plan. put in addition security if there is one. for the next four years nestlé will be integrated into sound paolo's public
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education policy with its one thousand three hundred and seventy five state schools the program is listed as a privately funded. but why is the city of sound pollo cooperating on child nutrition with a company that according to experts is helping to compound health problems in brazil. we've been invited to a school taking part in the nutria program most of the eight hundred children between the ages of six and fourteen come from nearby favelas the principle behind a new trail sounds good the dame's to familiarize children with unprocessed foods and help them develop an awareness for healthy food. the mystery foundation funds information events and organizes a healthy eating competition. a representative of sound paulo state school board has come to meet us. the foundation came to us offering the program.
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so we took six months studying the implications of the program especially because the name of nestlé was it was behind the foundation so we took we took this very seriously you know. the principal has signed up a school for the nutria program for the second time schools compete against each other teachers and students have to solve questions about healthy eating. i can explain to the numbers here two hundred sixty five schools seven hundred three teachers one hundred eighty five thousand five hundred kids the numbers you know life right numbers. there's a fourteen hundred euro prize for the school that wins the competition. last year
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this school came third generating a lot of praise for the school board and the headmistress. now but and i don't need their foundation i mean this then if the foundation is suffering they show and we are not the working we the comair fell apart and they are not a blinding us to use it in this clip and that. and in sank their own no nest re products in the school canteen the clean image of healthy food is undoubtedly more effective advertising it's clear the children here need help. and mistress tells us that school lunch is the only proper meal of the day for many here. this boy tells us he doesn't get food like this at home he's
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never eaten fruit salad anywhere else for about. a spoon and don's program is also part of the project the parents from the surrounding for venice are happy that the school office something to the children that they themselves come to afford and why counts who's teach children about healthy eating without corporate help. the point is that the products that these companies produce they don't have anything to do with us on the country most of what they do is to replace real phones there's a contradiction because they say they are interest to teach children to like real food and buy they don't commercialise real food i mean most of they they can commercialize our fake food i things that are not good for health and that replace our traditional dietary patterns so i mean i don't see either i just see these as a public relations strategy. nothing more than there's the nest
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a foundation sees it as an example of social responsibility we want to learn more about the goal of mr nutria we are granted an interview but a not amount to film it the representative emphasizes that the company is in general open to change in all areas but people can see. you can't make changes to production overnight you have to get consumers accustomed to alterations if you simply cut sugar in a popular product people would stop buying it. this late will do nothing to threaten sales after all brazil is a four billion euro market its fourth biggest worldwide. africa is not nearly as lucrative for now unlike in brazil he's easy such as
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obesity and diabetes have not reached epidemic proportions but african nutritionists say it's only a matter of time they are calling for timely action. you have the afghani did you know what is the most so this is so. i'm not on the us i may have some company here i mean. that's it so one of the most important things about this african visit the most is that you have. bothered me to mix most of my commitments that the most africans families will be looking at unfortunately this one is some of the first about you know about don't and the families of them to go to other foods. why they are vegetables disappearing from the city. how much sway do multinationals hold over rural areas there's lots of agriculture to the north of nairobi. we meet fama wilson kang
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he grows tomatoes and other vegetables everything for the market in the nearby town he has roughly half a hacker of lamb this is typically a small scale from one of the telling us that his family's going through is that. you've been sending these things to the market is being exploited because. the prices are not the government buy if they had them and buy a possum i mean to me. in kenya many farmers relinquish much of the profits to distributors who controlled and regulate the market and there's a further uncertainty fluctuations in supply and demand can leave the farmers stuck with these produce. so the bombers do all the work but the middlemen make the profits i should get four euros and thirty five cents for thirty kilos of tomatoes but the middlemen keep two euro sixty only get one euro seventy five. they're to blame for all predicament you know wilson cane would prefer to be
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a contract farmer for a major international company it's a system gaining traction in kenya farmers produce for a single company which guarantees it will purchase their entire harvest. is going. to gets some money. now. he does not seem to understand when there are some politics or explain to somebody by by any company. sammy will come aboard he's a contract farm he grows beans for a major kenyan exporter couple she isn't really free he says the prices are determined by the company and they're not good but he still doesn't want to go back to traditional farming. is almost time
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because. to buy their bio at that price. stayed out of months. is twice. since the big companies pay better farmers are increasingly opting out of the domestic market right behind samuel's field is a huge pineapple plantation it belongs to the mounting supplier of fresh and prepared produce and the biggest employer here in the area catherine works the fields for the mountains six days a week twelve hours a day like most of the people here she owns a piece of land and though she can't live off it she does farming on the side for extra income and the ingredients for a traditional done catherine never buys processed food. here we have beans and main. we've always eaten at here. we
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grow everything that we eat including. could catherine afford the pineapple juice that's produced on her employer's field . i can't afford delmonte juice i don't earn enough i'd rather buy an orange for two or three cents del monte products start at seventy cents a liter of juice costs one euro eighty i don't have money for that. catherine lives frugally so she can support a daughter who lives in nairobi she can afford that because a monthly earnings are around one hundred ninety euros three times the amount field hands make on small farms. del monte has a reputation for paying the highest wages in the region. but
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the flip side is that traditional agriculture is only worthwhile for subsistence farmers like katherine. she grows beans maize root vegetables and yams. these things are important for us they're healthy they haven't been sprayed they just grow without fertilizer or anything else that's even on a. subsistence farming is still fairly prevalent in kenya. in the mega-cities sound pollo there's very little space for the people to grow their own vegetables but there is some does a little paradise on the some power lines in this poor eastern neighborhood house
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dita temple has created a community garden here he runs the aid organization cities without hunger planting vegetables on the news than private plots of land he started it ten years ago today hands teach attempt overseas twenty five and gardens in some paolo. it was a completely new concept to produce food in a favela. when i started when i wanted to use lines of communal gardens everyone always said it wouldn't work and that i was crazy. but they soon changed their mind. especially when they sold the batch towards it's good and it. turns d. to help the poorest of the poor people without an education or the job cities without hunger and companies them for a year and trains them in urban agriculture the goal is that the garden begins to
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turn a profit after twelve months providing the people who farm it with a livelihood the vegetables on just for personal use they're also designated for sale in the local market finding new pope. this is the biggest obstacle this one is located above an oil pipeline it was once used as an illegal garbage dump and a hangout for drug dealers it took seven months to clean it up and prepare it for gardening. it's very intensive at first it's a lot of work and the land is heavily litter. we have to do a lot of work before the land is ready to be found. along. the gardens old farmed organically no artificial fertilisers or insecticides are used and to be honest and a family of being with cities without hunger for eight months. they're still
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receiving intensive supervision. i'm told family works here we've changed our eating habits. i used to weigh eighty nine kilograms now i weigh seventy. i mean a feed of i don't eat processed foods and more i try to eat nothing that's unhealthy occasionally i let my daughter has no junk food because she's a child and wants to try them. i think she'd afford the gardens of cities without hunger contrast stokley with the products sold by corporate food giants maybe this model will catch on. i'm not against drugs national corporations but for national corporations control the production and then the whole market of these products that are increasingly. increasingly. unhealthy and
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what is worse they are replacing a dietary pattern which is healthy so then does work in public health. i cannot have any other feeling against this companies that. do not like them. your spinach child it's full of i. never read a mushroom dish. a glass of red wine a day is good for you. financially many people need something to believe that's
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thinkers and to covent garden just what did it feel like to live in times over the revolution of the people. nineteen seventeen the real october started over twenty fifth t.w. . this is news live from berlin a show of defiance in barcelona nearly half a million catalan separatists take to the streets in support of their regional parliament this comes i was up to spanish prime minister mariano rajoy announces plans to dissolve catalonia government and call an idea lection will find out from
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madrid and barcelona what this could mean also coming up. results from elections in the czech republic show the country's next prime minister could be a populist billionaire andre bobbish the. no party wants to take an active role in shaping policies. i made of can money welcome to the program now this week spain gave catalonia an ultimatum withdraw your declaration of independence or face the consequences well today prime minister mariano rajoy made good on his warning madrid says it plans to sack castle and lead as cattle and president carlos put him on is now delivering a televised address in response to the central government's move large crowds
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rallied in buffalo not to support independence. for these catalogs madrid's response is get another insult hundreds of thousands of separatist demonstrators took to barcelona streets on saturday their dream of catalan independence goes on despite the central government's dramatic step. he was hoping it didn't have to come to this in triggering article one fifty five of spain's constitution prime minister mariano rajoy has turned to what he considers a measure of last resort in the growing political crisis between madrid and barcelona. the autonomy and self governance of catalonia will not be suspended it will remove the people that put the autonomous government outside the law and the constitution. itself governance will not end it will be recovered for the sake of its legality and for the coexistence of all
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catalans not just those who are pro independence. under romney's plan catalan affairs come under madrid's direction regional elections would be held within six months they would exclude members of the current government of karla's push them on from madrid this is seen as a logical step. but it is unacceptable from any kind of months among the demonstrators in barcelona and other members of his government they've denounced madrid's move as a step too far just listen if you go. because this constitutes a coup d'etat against the catalog people. article one fifty five does not allow the spanish president to call for new elections and dismiss a democratic government. for now catalonia his government in barcelona is still standing the spanish senate will decide on friday whether to approve prime minister royce decision to trigger article one fifty five his
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conservative people's party holds a majority of the senate seats. let's hear about how catalonia is reacting to these new moves from madrid barbara faisal now joins me from buffalo in uprights good to see you so the capsule and president is delivering an address right now what's the mood in boston. i didn't.
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