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what do you say what do you get for $0.50. or fifty's that i. know a lot. of the did not is which today is. stinking coffee ells malt lobster did you know it cost $0.50 to feed $100.00 child for one full day. it would be one stop day. to. day maybe over numbers that all with the sheridan. sharing a room full of children with just 50 cells and a tap on your smartphone together we can end global hunger freeze double the.
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who jumped out or. how we got it. that got joy out of a science of the. first 30 other 100 other elway's. that one of the has that 6 is. another 1 2 i'm honestly i didn't know about that. day with. a lot of audio on that dotted message out of the. general i'm 'd not that of us that out of no i'm an economist on of us that out of though everybody in our planet thought of us they are though we're at the other end
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on. the airport and i decide to buy theo p.-a 6 years ago this is where the story began. on the tarmac i see white cargo planes being unloaded food aid coming into the country. and at the same time food being exported out. why is a famine struck country receiving food aid exporting food to the rich world to us. to make sense. returning to find out more i couldn't imagine that it was the beginning of a much bigger story. that .
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lasts. 6 pts. wherever i go in the city everything seems to be about development and hunger and poverty are to be eradicated by any means necessary. for the field being government the solution is to invite foreign investors. to feel good but would they like that so i doubt they will get it but if it gets to
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the labor. stead of my lessons in how we take it home that elaine is that all about it will be investment and that some are not yet and yes again known as that focus by doubt but chop that thought it was a gimmick if you took any sort of melissa you know you're going to put you not just diplomatically to be investment. you can be sure to come up about 20. the call from the government is hard in the luxury hotels of the city i meet international business people and venturers looking for opportunities. the hot topic on everyone's lips is farmland what they call the new green gold. leaf to. be. the eat. when i came here i 1st went to investment office they said that they were very keen
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to have foreign investment here to stimulate business and also to improve their foreign exchange balance. issue commercial operation i could see that it was suitable for what i wanted to do here great rainfall. good soils and you're really interesting situation it's just good to give it a go. investors bringing money to a poor country might be good but what happens to the local farmers when the investors arrive. knowing nothing about the country i'm pretty lost. but i get to know an environmental journalist dealing with the land issues. see not a reason for this is a big question but when i've been on the center of. it means it damages on the
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road ecological system of the park and it's never reported on the media and the things that for us to miss i think it is another new disaster because you can't cover that forest by any museum maybe for the next 500 years. whatever there is for thailand in ethiopia you will find london restores. that isn't the mines i have heard a lot of reports from western region. now i want to see with my own eyes what exactly is going on. argyll allows me to join him on his investigative trip to the gunbarrel our region far away in western iraq.
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a much uglier chart and these are still in the significant office live here nightly because it is a much more limited if they get out get on it and you'll end up going to look in my. language as it would as i'm a jew what is that michel good and what is it met their match again and give me a you know basically i dug. one of the theater up watch a video so the cutouts that got he slipped while it was and what it had removed at the beginning of the could begin to look at the actor not to be told i got. thank you live when you have to continue to pee i think it was the 40. in the. in atlanta they didn't get them.
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i sat down on with a tiny little heating into which if you look at the top i see he was in my limo not there by left on the dividing the snow. in your neighborhood living in the cellars here. he was telling that he. he got sick alone and the many other than down the aisle when i mean how could anyone in the cannot afford to lose their investment maasai. leaving the farmer we follow the new road. we drive deeper into the heart of gum bella and reach ethiopia's largest national park. the park covers over 5000 square kilometers stretching all the way to south sudan and is the habitat of many endangered species this enormous area is
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also home to indigenous people living off of small farming fishing and hunting the dream means to expand this park to suit the cells of. the mid this park the 2nd to the serengeti park in the i think there now. this is dumbbell region there is a national park in the middle here. the area east full of many species why let him out. and then he said project that. investors coming to come bail out to be given a lot so i'll do what he had noun to do this and i did my kitchen quickly as soon as possible so that the. then vest as can not be looked at it in
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the center of the park so this is what we are doing but who knows i step bridge or come from the federal i were maybe the kid we don't know but the seed we are trying our best. this is where we have now to now. the park official omar is worried that his small staff can't control the vast area of the park. a few hours later we discover that his concerns appear to be justified.
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costs. in the regional capital argyle goes out alone to find information about the government's plans for the national park and the saudis start companies. the local security police find out that our guy was asking around and they arrest him. the entire night our gal was interrogated at the police headquarters. early in the morning he's released and ordered to leave dumbbell immediately he is told if you care about your security don't ever come back. there were opinion over. the plan 40. that it would take a variable of any j.f.k.
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children lost their lives richard a. cigarette as a. symbol and you know that. i feel some kind of fear in most places particularly in rootlessness they cannot understand you are a journalist that cannot understand you have a right to put it says the government policies they cannot understand such as you job and only way that trying to creates a sense of fear and. a serious warning and. in that condition you feel that you might end up in the jail might be touched by someone ok then run away from softness.
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the for. argo was lucky to make it out of gum bella. but for him this story is too important to drop. the one below been a pilot can become a cutter. like of the purple knight years out east given a shot. muslim originally given or visual you're going to have a good minute learned of you know in your. book i never enchanted. nursery. school or. 'd during that because i mean in the eighty's about 400000 people died and almost
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every family does their loved ones. but the hunger has not disappeared today millions of people are still dependent on food aid for their survival. now investors from all over the world that are coming here to get to farmland. if at the same time i had a culture a land is taken away from our farmers and the crops are exported they very even more hunger. before hardly any international investors cared about farmland in africa so why are they so interested now. in.
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searching for answers i go to the global financial centers in new york the largest conference frag. cultural investors is how. i let myself in through the back door. and once you get it there so not so famous american bank robber why do you rob banks because that's where the money and so he said and in some ways that's why people invest in agriculture because now there's money in the u.s. you can make profits in agriculture the way you probably couldn't 1020 years ago. but things change around the middle of the 2000 was when we had a big spike in food prices. and the reasons why if you price your heart disease on the demand side we have a population going to 9000000000 a lot of new demand can get a share out of china and on the supply side you know there are questions about how much for talent is available in parts of the world in particular the heavily
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populated parts of east asia europe and other areas. and what's changed in 2008 is that we seem institutional investors pension funds insurance companies private equity funds hedge fund now starting to look at agriculture as as a as a real asset something tangible which is a good story value good place to invest money in the same ways that looking for a commercial real estate or ira forestry ready ready. as it turns out the rush for the green gold is reaching every corner of the planet international investors will soon control over $55000000.00 hectares of farmland an area larger than the size of germany most affected are the poorest countries such
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the owner billionaire alla moody has a longstanding interest in ethiopia but investigating land investments in the opium is dangerous. with his arrest and dumbbell a fresh in his mind argyle has fears about the government. but as a foreigner making a film about i.q. cultural development i could contact the company. ladies you can get this was it. so the story. before we start you know this to get some confidentiality. which may not be disclosed in some interviews they've made quiet those fish out on the ship but all i thought and so yes. this is you know 1000. and this one like this it is 2000 that they are no section 2 city $1008.00 that this one is $4000.00 that make that sort
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of become $10000.00 that so of course all of the clearly got to 50 of these here almost 12 of it so all of this is very. there and the same time the thought. on structured was in the coming 6 months this is a fascinating 5 to it would be fine and i was. just. expired and the bottom was a maximum of. 12 indicators the government has to provide us some moron this or that we can expand these 5 and. we are lucky the manager grants permission to visit the farm and.
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arriving at the farm area we risk ordered by the company security service. you know saudi started a. touch of the opening to be listening. to compass. and do travel company the company provides services like food service clinic service for if you could working here we have a football field people do football kates like they are in near
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future also again will have a swimming pool like that so this is very nice place where people are living freely not scared the security is good that the health care good and that living standard is very good in the air up to standard all the camp fighting teams they are designed in good way done by swedish company dropped. so what was here before you started. it was in plea. for us when i say 4 it's not like it's one of. but you see this fish repopulated oh that was clipped and if you noticed. production.
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well we'll get the brown rice and then but i was it moved and you know we'll get by trace and that's going out of the polished but this one is only one of the. last it's made is very expensive and you will export police radios. for the night we were given a guest room at the farm compound but we don't sleep very well the idea that a famine struck country should export rice is just too strange. you know. this all. the. media
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and female once the project is completed and that 10000 was did you find something not only in 100 films but also there are something for the mankind that something gives you comfort. there there are issues which we fly being reused. people. in. government is taking place. there's not much. people living much of the villages there inside yes. the people living inside what there. must have been effect and then what some people there. is that some of the this is that the.
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saudi stars operating on the eagle permits awarded by the government to enable this development the government is a victim of the local people from the land. or indigenous people who have been living in the area for hundreds of years. we need to find out what happened to them i know. i know. that. the most difficult piece. in the world of science. most people are afraid of the government must be free to problem. and said fear
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is justified. but over due cause there isn't any thought of mind and spice. just pick up against the land investments you'll be branded on to development and running the very could be in jail. finally our goal manages to find people willing to talk to us just. going a bit think uncle kit which he did you took a model. in the ticket why no college money. well you know what it. would be done. would.
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all over me your cattle populum you bump into me i got a mark on the ballot and then i can make i run my feeling about a new to me a good day at the court chipped the more difficult to the very cover i want to come by whom betty. eat. eat eat. all over eat the o.p.'s small farmers are being forced off their land and moved to new villages one and a half 1000000 people are about to be evicted. the government calls the forced
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relocation villages ational creating new villages the official reason is that the locals can only benefit from development programs that provide people with clean water health care school and food aid if they live in the villages. the major development program in the area is a program called p.b.s. . right beside the saudi star farm we find one of those new villages the only one who dares to speak with us is a local government official. it should go to but in that in only due to my model because i'm not an industry and then i go and defensible many soldiers that article come in or i'm under bordeaux anil kumble that i'm doing been. forgotten you hear on a number as i do not ability of each element. and
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so if you don't win if we get your disease doesn't like just a good thing then we need to not only. along the lines of deadly and. in the new villages we find empty bags on the ground. the local farmers who've lost their land now need food aid to survive. seems hard to believe that these relocations are about helping people. to. make good draw. go in them wanted to be when we went dark a chill come and they're gonna get all good you a leg bone but you an out war come on get on that do you. want them
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you. got to make a deal vulnerable make a deal quotable me get you down don't need to deal with the who don't need you but a young male would be out there would have been down. for a real one a very nice one and you can walk on by to come by 11 anti-tobacco. going on here when i'm going to a local malcolm he. can get off the deck and they don't want to nitty if you have talked. to him but we're going to target. i'm going to take over again we're going to do moment time to time we're going to were loyal a good idea to tell you have whatever. but most of the do all. that but now we're not going to go on with your put oh you know what they're doing the only year it only do it though come on one of them out of one year but.
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the development program p.b.s. protection of basic services is meant to help the poorest. the intention is great but it appears as if the thiel be in government income bella is exploiting the development program to clear land for the international. investors. the p.b.s. program is funded by the us the european union and the world bank. the world bank is the world's largest development bank and is financed by tax money. the mission of the bank is to end extreme poverty and build prosperity. in ethiopia the world bank has put over $2000000000.00 into the p.b.s.
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program. the world bank is engaged in many countries that have institutional weaknesses that have ethnic tensions and have big development challenges and that's why we're there ultimately. i think development often involves trade offs and many development aspects to come with costs. people should not be disadvantaged by by a project whether they own the land all they don't own. your own thing is to make sure that those projects are television a quality way without jeopardising the other environments. making sure that we protect people and in fact benefit society at large. without necessarily creating new reserves.
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in ethiopia $3000000.00 people already depend on food aid to survive now the development program seems to be creating even more hunger how can the small farmers survive when they've lost their land. more food and. there were you. 100 of us that are. on the nobody in. congress but and. now i have a cheerleader shuttle crew with me with. argo
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by the state farm system but they had abandoned it because they said it's too dry to grow crops on so we were the 1st people to plow in that area. if i can just point out across the way. there is a neighbor of ours here he's also a little cool person. he has no infrastructure much no machinery. but what he does do is follow his crops very closely and he does everything at the right time and you see he's also got a very good crop now i'd like to just show you this crop just here. the person the farmer who has this is somebody who lives in i do so but they're not following their crop closely they're what we call an investor they come perhaps once
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a year to look at their crops the result of that is that we have a lot of this week this is called i think grass we it's called. literally means no break what we need is more of the mentality of the pharma rather than the investor people who are committed to growing crops following their crops having that competitive instinct wanting to find something which increases the production . and that's one of the things they're very keen on these people who are having export crops in order to increase foreign exchange now we haven't gone down that route i mean were we to save imports. which varieties this was so i am a little. yeah so.
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