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join us on facebook g.w. africa. so mottos they could be goners red gold the soil is ideal and they've been cultivated in the country for decades yet gone is tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opting to leave the country. the reason is that tomatoes have become gambling chips in global trade policy as have other products africa is a lucrative market shipments of canned tomatoes milk powder and frozen chicken from industrialized nations promise huge profits. global trade policies are destroying domestic markets and forcing people to leave their countries edward for one no longer harvests tomatoes in ghana but in italy pulling conditions.

gonna build up its tomato industry after gaining independence in 1957 the country was keen to develop its economy and utilize its own natural resources today all of ghana's tomato processing plants have shut down including this one in poilu cool there are many reasons unstable power grid unsuitable tomato varieties and a global trade policy italy china and other countries are dumping canada and

processed tomatoes on ghana is to look for it because that's where owner. i'm a security guy i sleep when i'm not tired i go to fresh water and country you know what i feel better that's very good for you and for the board you have to do this every other craft or sort of. their life the beauty of the for. last year i did. the full good a month if you see do it was wrapped line on the market and this like there was no week. so i always just cried vincent our team got now grows onions instead of tomatoes he also used to work at the factory he and other former

workers still come here they can't bear the thought of giving it up. this factory once provided a livelihood to an entire region a new this a good of the factory and mood. of the factory because this factory is working a lot of it when i get into through our past groups is very soft. and everything is working. there's no in the field this machine is so moving. here all the time he was headed that you have something that graph is is there to do it you cannot work it is sound enough to force treated. if this factory is workable it year it is going to be the light of the north.

trade policies are a global competition and the more powerful players stand a better chance at accessing the most lucrative market it's the people on the ground who lose out. benedict a free fuck is a tomato farmer into a bottle in the middle of one of ghana's main tomato production regions the many day laborers looking to be hired during the harvest season attest to widespread unemployment even at the busiest time of year some wildfire was. nearly half of garner's popular. lives from agriculture a robust tomato growing industry would boost growth in rural areas nowhere is this

industry more likely to flourish than here in the country's fractal middle belt where you move but now the factories are no longer buying locally grown produce farmers are becoming increasingly worried that. benedict gross tomatoes on a heck tariff land if you believe. that the law. and asked that and that's why unions would maybe also rule we have to buy water every day when it doesn't rain or. the tank of water cost $120.00 c.d.'s 20 euros and that's not even enough for the whole farnaby asked about will we have to buy water every day for about a month and a half until the rain comes if we have a lot of problems which makes it hard to survive in this country and i'm up into milton all my. crops grow in abundance here the farmers could cultivate even more

land and employ more workers yeah but they lack funds if they want to buy seed and fertilizer and pay for irrigation water they need to take out loans. it's got to be we don't have money for fertilizer everything's expensive we can't sell our harvest and we end up and. run have a life in children to care for. that's why i'll have to head to the desert and try my luck elsewhere is it. worth. it if. you really want. it. would almost. make it to europe have better life than where you life is hard for us every day you see people struggling and still. we have nothing whatever to do but you know how he and the museum already are. if the chance comes

today or tomorrow i'll head to the desert my farm is failing and the bank wants its money back i guess about it in the sky. in. combat. now that the factories are closed farmers such as benedikt to have to sell their produce to the market queens to sell it on in the cities. all over there's a surplus of projects during the harvest season so the farmers have to sell it rock bottom prices. is the amazon mansion for $320.00 c.d.'s or they offered $270.00 and said others are getting even less at this price i wonder and anything after that it could. never be out like a. firefight and.

tomatoes are a food staple in ghana they account for 40 percent of spending on vegetables middle class canadians like their tomatoes canned gonna could meet at least a portion of it's demand itself but the canned tomatoes here on the market are not domestic ones. that. come out of china come up even to some of this being some of the 3 i'll be very happy if we have a company here in town that we could use our own tomatoes condé and if the local people points a few quarts it and frank and serious spending the rest of my day when big money to that kind it's still the country to be done.

benedictions husband has gone to italy hoping to earn money to help support the family to pay for the children's school fees and also so they can invest in a house and a well to irrigate the crops. and you know what it took them down here my husband can earn more there than i'm gonna. see. he sends money every month. for me and our 2 children meanwhile pledge to everyone's your money that was. here in the village it's obvious which families have relatives in europe they're the ones whose homes are made of concrete it's. nothing. but despite the problems besetting the industry many have continued to

grow tomatoes. benedict his house is still under construction. she still paying rent. and i've been mostly use here not because i do you do if some prefer canned tomatoes because they're more convenient you just add water and they're ready that's it it's me but i prefer fresh ones. and more importance in these 2000 and. 4. is the idea that i have 4 friends who farm tomatoes. and they're all ready to set out to the desert rats and those. in fall outside one month my husband is in europe and is making money and i work and here that's how we

manage marriage and children can go to school. almost we also use his money to pay rent and part of it to complete our house. and as if you were here it would be very hard for us i'm always glad to see to believe and try their luck elsewhere. hello. it is very. and there no more feed now of the. so you know what. yes.

if he's in italy he worked on an apple farm later on a tomato plantation and now he herds animals only one. of the. most cunning migrants live in other west african countries many also live in the us and canada. and in europe. forgotten and farmers there's no deagle route to europe most pass through the sahara desert and then cross the mediterranean according to the international organization for migration or i.o.m. 16000 gun am's took this path to italy in the last 5 years. many african migrants end up in southern italy but tomatoes grown here are processed and sold in

cans including at low prices in ghana with production heavily subsidized italian tomatoes have a competitive advantage over local goods in africa. the seasonal workers from africa actually contribute to the problem by working for rock bottom wages which further lowers production costs few of them have resident. punnets the day laborers are exploited by my field and eyes actions recruited by agents known as puppet adi peace middleman pay them puck right off today to talk to the commission company in the community to do food for 2 generations we still believe this and this bill for you go for it and use it to have fun up with little wood to come from coca-cola you know local to a news or. from one its even to google it plenty of.

it did. who offical criticism overweight that how would you say and you will soon. begin again i want to look at my heel not too on the clothing as yet you know full well who offer kind of the cut was a big beard with the engine. still it was in the cellar monday and it's kind of what we know from 40 c. died no foul. oh italy or from. no farm tell him what is it tell him to work on the machine. i didn't want to use for a gun now and yeah i still don't want to use. the i'm not working like it then you can go and you pick it 11 which you write i live in the head. of. my father i said i'm a rice also a farmer they used to go out for mentalists the company collapsed. and make me

travel if you listen and i live in a ghetto you see. everything flew bator you see i was good then you do if south. had were down the other seasonal workers little shanty towns dilapidated heartsore tents in the middle of fields. there's no water no sanitary facilities electricity or heating that. bet on the rambling denominator you didn't know where i'm living. now never till then because if i didn't pay then go and worried back. to how you are here you have to fight to take off your family. oh you even sometimes causes all of them doubt problem to call you and you can see that you can help them flew off for years fighting like trouble now our life is

like no really sell a life to have all family. in chairing the owner of yet i discount so co-operative grows organic tomatoes it also hire seasonal workers from africa but they earn a decent wage and are given proper contracts that not day laborers at the mercy of the exploitative couple are allowed to system. the. on shy kids from senegal and has worked on many plantations. but he may need to. run longer below or he was only when i began here that i realized what goes on at the other plantations. i used to think it was just the way things worked in italy and now i'm here i understand what's going on about the about that were being exploited he said there but. for you coming. through what i got so is head of the co-operative he wants to raise awareness of the plight of the seasonal workers. from other any

chance you know what we need to tell consumers when i'm there so that you could buy a can of tomato puree for $0.40 alex abdul giuseppe and antonio were exploited so study they were forced to live in terrible conditions with no basic rights no running water no electricity. so do you still want to buy those tomatoes. presence of tomato products are sold for next to nothing even though picking processing packaging and transport all have to be accounted for profit is all that matters that's why a kilo of tomatoes often fetches as little as 5 cents. said was that was the question because i as a farmer am getting paid just $0.05 per kilo now how am i going to make a living it's impossible maybe i need to buy the seedlings irrigate i need fertilizer i need to rent a tractor it wolf. these are not costs the only flexible costs are the wages i pay my workers we mustn't forget the copper

a lot of system is a consequence of that it's a consequence of a market that has spiraled completely out of control. parts. of it. pietro wants to beat the system because tomatoes are sold through a fair trade organization for 30 instead of $0.05 per kilo. bucking the global system isn't easy it involves restructuring the entire farm to consumer chain. is not doing when you were no billionaire pietro aims to prove that process to monitor products can be made ethically he wants his co-operative to serve as an example a small step to changing the entire production system. because the video has lots of people saying we need to help the situation improve

their garden so that these people don't come here in the 1st place we've got to make global economics and politics make that impossible by the economy there is no tomato processing industry in ghana which goes to show how sick the system is how utterly crazy the system i'm allowed to complete i mean they fall. in europe industrial farming subsidies and wage dumping are resulting in surpluses cut price european tomatoes end up exported to international markets today italy is just a minor player in the global tomato industry china is now the world's biggest producer its exports tomato paste often diluted with cheap filet gradients all over the world $60000000.00 tons per year 10 times more than italy the most to. important metric in global exports is profitability and a negative impact on the countries that import the goods is irrelevant because free

trade is the principle that opens the african market to exports after independence african countries introduced customs duties in order to protect domestic farmers and emerging industries but now these restrictions are being lifted despite the fact that most african nations still struggle to compete on the international market gonna came under international pressure want to try to increase imports hire some tomato products to 40 percent that now at 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to arrive in the country. like. economist corbin i want to is familiar with the problem and as an academic he can speak more freely than the gun and government which has to take into account international investors

yeah fresh was my child and i view. that you know a lot of it was that yeah. so this one child was. only a touch of a sentimental. about 70 percent fact. the problem with this product. is god. there are more or less technological master. mark at football matches. push him out of the mess to please us. through your how a large number of the metro fathers who for most of those tomato paste and rice are not the only products jeff. dicing african markets and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in 21000 for example they give you also exported milk powder

concentrate and me to west africa. look. at this market in accra it's easy to see how imports are driving out domestic products translates into job losses only translates destruction off my view. it translates into publics around. and to translate into fast traditional values non-typical long to get out of this country. you do not have the capacity to change business across the aisle plus going to cause your a while back about 3 years ago in part off sick on food from the us and us could dump out of africa and work on a fortune which is. what does all visuals constantly if you try to

change positive value. for each issue not destroy the lives of. the boss making the stock sometimes for the pants off on top of all those who profit but if you. don't use assignment. to moti up on you as an agricultural advisor in northern gonna be at the tomato factory and quite good that's gone out of business. as a result local farmers are desperate many of them leave the region others are experimenting with alternative crops. i'm still do grow tomatoes but just for their own families. do. want to know about bowing out of what you don't use yet

and what you will not use to obama will nearly have a bit about him on. obama your problem not the one. my love my mother. but oh if this rescue was all done by 2 months of my new public to my 2 factor once incessant need you to make a lot of money in. doing they did told me that they were making plenty money because i do it to factor in needed it and in the market it was needed its. point i want to. know. how long will now nobody. could have to survive so we have to continue to put in much effort as we come.

to them in the 2 months or 3 did very well mail it came to market new market ever 10 what perish in a field oh how there's no where people are not coming to buy and it lead to sex. they can have to take their lives because you don't think their lives that well will come after them they don't have it in will to pick. from. many people have left to try their luck elsewhere most of them go to the cities. me. sally for went 1st to kumasi then to accra now he's planning to make the journey to europe. where the men come by you have neither of my children go to school even

though i'm not happy about that too to be i know they should go to school in them but i can't afford the fees. sometimes we don't even have money to eat at night. just. a lot telling me as we've seen the images of dead migrants in the mediterranean sea. view and he said my wife is praying for my safe boyish to you aboard coming in a moment she knows i'm going to give our children a better future unknown to him aboard i'm going to change something awful tonight. and i'm will be another cause i will pray to god how long a boy is one of the love and one of the god wants us to pray was and to trust in him whatever happens are told about for today as i want to. move. in.

a moment will this house is being built by my brother who lives in our hostel and this one by my brother and all this is mine of the summer when i was. i would like to tear it down and build a concrete one and also one for my mother and tell them i want. you to. walk like. a lot of golf one day in the summer you want that one i get you good gun gun gun gun. you know. what. people like sally feel can't just apply for a visa board a plane and fly to europe their only option is to save as much money as they can and try to make their own way that. anyone who can afford it and lists the help of

someone known in the village as a travel agent. is getting some advice before he leaves. we're going to go to give god a good. one for you to be. powerful. among. so some sort of group. of numbs that i never was a high up. can i meant but you can never. find them out of a number of the long one and i found. you also now watch me.

while you know me. mama now i'm full mana bomber font on channel. one or on my. yes with the walk never. been telling chen you know what. number. did it damn 10. damn can i stop in a minute or 2 am connection you. had all it about us and the. you know my lincoln through the monitor one man for some pleasant thoughts about that time my memory. and i thought would you not well i'm glad to see that been laughing. i want to see you be laughing when did i best get out from the one i lived through and then face going to be a bad guy. when i'm mistaken you know fine can't go much in mumbai left out ahead

of me you know i'm none too. strong for made in the one line to form below wind but i'm got a piece in there you go watch on for me. or. by me and we have no choice but a large situation here forces us to take this risk even you can even if i die my children can be proud of me because i want them to because i won't have died stealing or robbing a someone but because i wanted to give them a better future but it simply wasn't god's will for someone from i wonder. if. it's hard to tell if someone's on that way to the market or on their way to your up

some who decide to make the journey don't tell their families until they've already left. many young men in the region are tired of. waiting for life to improve they get to a point where leaving feels like their only option. for the man who hope to work on one of italy's tomato plantations have only one way to reach europe across the sahara desert in the mediterranean it's a journey that will cost some of them their lives. to lose.

to. the keratitis relief organization has built a chapel near the tomato fields in a poorly there are showers here and the workers can also seek advice and free medical treatment edward survive the journey from africa but he had an accident in the van on the way to the tomato fields under normal circumstances this would be covered by workers compensation and edward would be paid sick leave but on a pulley as tomato plantations edward is only paid for the crates he fails so he needs to get back on his feet as quickly as possible i mean if they don't work they don't earn anything that see that we should be providing them with them and.

i think we need to be given food something to eat. up in a program. and when they go back to work they're back at square one. to talk. no not me and in this way they have nothing and no one who can help them. get you leave me. pretty. migrants contribute a substantial share of financial aid to gaza that would send remittances home every month even though he done so little he works as hard as he can and it's still never enough he lives not only with the way to his family's expectations but also with the hostility of many locals i said i was only 31 the people many italians were useless years of us who are now giving me cowardly sassafras they're afraid of us

because we're black. last month and almost when. they still need work case and we are not the window commence to walk foot in his very back only then knowing what they are doing in. my own doing our bread our souls with him for the money for so fucking pay school fees and. i think i seen anything if you don't need. something because the response relates with a total landfall near. 0 . now without money to thank you enough for us where i get it then after

a while then i get a future. oh oh. good afternoon. now mike is the. evidence that. really clever one of our what more than double that would cover by the whole world you're right that all. mobile. ok. i just had to go back. and do something for myself. nice now. i'm

going. i'm fine i clap my hands. and i knew he didn't. mean. to fast i am i to walk you fully know call. younkers there's something wrong and then. have a heart king i want to know how much they are marking oh no money and how many. times i mentioned. yeah they're coming back for more. and they stipulate we just know that there's 7 kate snow skiing with me on the 2 column when you're young and you've with me big blank wall we turn up the guy you get a small maze you. the 1st movers not many you somewhat

left. yeah it's that embankment. so i'm on my doing this bump now i just remember i've only close my mother used to doing this in. 1st we're going to go back to will go go back to africa like i go left africa possibilities to open you grew up with i just like to know that there's a wild time example but. how many years i spent in this country and i'll go back to my country feel. to me i look at me one day one day when the these guys who i thought my previous and i don't you might be. near the town of techy man one man has made it his mission to revitalize the local tomato industry when he returned home to ghana some years ago with apollo

a for it was shocked by what he saw defunct factories desperate farmers and tons of imported tomatoes after studying and working in the u.s. he wants to invest in his own country. and tomatoes could be a gold mine read to gold but he's also aware of his social responsibility. is going to change. the landscape because once we start broad produce and on a lot of very large scale in 510 years we want to see the whole script change and into producing quality. so matters. many attempts have been made to revive the lantern auto industry a factory was opened here in touch the man in 2007 but it's been closed for years perhaps it's about to get a 2nd chance. barbara and i think gonna draw is gonna provide run

everything in the ukraine because this is home we are. why is the youth half the currency of work during the. go after the migrants. that's going to do the right to remain where they will die. if the government wants to make sure that the industry survive knowing the house to be aware of proof took to the industrious buffers like reducing the reports from outside into the country but if the government does not provide that's comfort zone then the competition would be unbearable for us unfortunately. if the tomato factory were given a fair chance it might help boost the region's fortunes. trade policies

could support development in struggling countries rather than hinder it. that benedict his family might be able to earn a living from tomato farming the husband could remain at home. and if he did decide to work in europe for a while he might be able to travel vast safely and live and work in fact conditions . such. as. resolving. their land will mostly. meaningless but always he. learned to. live yeah every morning we talk and every evening we talk for

fear on certain days you see young men with backpacks walking with. you know that they're going to the desert. where 5 gallons will fit someone left a week ago but i haven't heard if he's arrived. not so good luck. and as far as the danger goes we humans can die or we can live in this journey and just like our life you might win or you might lose it that's why they make this trail what it.

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