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we were at the helm as you say and you also. didn't even want to look at her heel not to underclothing as yourself willing to offer kind of the country's a big big within the engine to. give us instead of monday when he's going to focus no fun for the c.t.d. no from all the telly all. from ottawa's no farm you tell him what is it tell him to work on the machine. i didn't want us all gone now and yeah i still don't want to lose. the i'm not working like eat anything gonna do you take it 11 which are right i live. do you bend. my foot i say farmer memorize also a farmer there used to grow up the mantle of the company collapsed. and make me try to flee a small and now i live in a ghetto you. have
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a team full of both or you see i was good then you do if. it were down the other seasonal workers little shanty towns dilapidated huts or tents in the middle of fields. there's no water no sanitary facilities electricity or heating. that on the rambling denominate that you didn't know where i'm living. now never today because if i didn't head then there were worrying back. to how you are here you have to fight to take off your family. oh you even sometimes causes all of them to help them do call you and you can see that you can help them through a for years fighting like trouble know our life is like no real life to help all family. in cheering you on the p.f.
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try to scotto co-operative grows organic tomatoes it also hired 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. deon shy kids from senegal and has worked on many. dante sions. but he might even need a. loan longer be you 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 i lie about that we're being exploited and you're. not going to. get through what i got so is head of the co-operative he wants to raise awareness of the plight of the seasonal workers. are there any chance you know what we need to tell consumers when i'm back so that you could buy
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a can of tomato puree for $0.40 i'll accept do it yourself be an antonio we're exploring so much that 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 to market products are sold for next to nothing or even they're 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 $0.05. as a farmer i'm getting paid just $0.05 per kilo now am i going to make a living it's impossible maybe i need to buy the seedlings irrigate i need a bird allies or i need to rent a tractor. these are no costs the only flexible costs are the wages i pay my workers we mustn't forget the capital a lot a system is a consequence it's a consequence of
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a market that has spiraled completely out of control before so. far but. 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 file. i'm to conceal my chain. as the little i knew i know being it pietro aims to prove that process tomato products can be made ethically he wants his co-operative to serve as an example a small step to changing the entire production system. possibilities lots of people say we need to help the situation improve garnett so that these people don't come here in the 1st place global economics and politics
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make that impossible. there's no tomato processing industry in ghana which goes to show how sick the system is how utterly crazy system i mock the compliment 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 filling gradients all over the world $60000000.00 tons per year 10 times more than italy. the most important metric in global exports is profitability and a negative impact on the countries that import the goods is irrelevant. free trade
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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 ghana came under international pressure when it tried to do. increase imports have some tomato products to 40 percent that now at 10 percent and containers full of cut price tomatoes continue to rise in a country. like . economist corbell 2 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 one of my time i've you.
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know you got a lot of what was said yeah wow. so this one child was. only it touches a sentimental. about 70 percent spot. the problem with this product. is that. they're more or less functional bonded with mustard and then mocked at football matches. push him out. of the mess to politicize. the story or how a large number of the metro fathers who put most of the. tomato paste and rice are not the only products jeopardizing african markets and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in 21000 for example you also exported milk powder concentrate and me to west africa.
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at this market in a crop it's easy to see how imports are driving out domestic products translates into job losses the only translates to trashing off my view. it translates into puppets. and it translates into cash tristian valley's young people long to dr discounts. need to modify fast * changing business because you have lost once while bob was there a while back about 3 years ago and bottle sick on food from the us and us get done out of africa and work on a fortune which is. sort of how the show. yes there was one spanking if you try to
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change policy here by. me. preposition or not destroy lives. and thus making the song some time for the plan to find out because those who profit have very few. to noosa some men. and women will. seem ot upon you as an agricultural advisor in northern gonna be at the tomato factory and quite to go 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 and some still do grab some mottos but just for their own families looking good for love of my own i like to let you know just to have a good and not to follow you to a bunch of little gave
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a shit about them on about why your problem not the one of them run up on your feet about. what all this was you was all done by 2 months of mind a public factor was incessant they used to make a lot of money. even. though david told me that they were making plenty money because do it in fact in needed it and in the market it was really good it's. one of the more left you know. how long will now know what you have to survive so we have to continue to put in much effort as we can't just. simply. i mean the 2 month tour through did very well mel it killed remark at
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newmarket everton what person a feel they'll have is no where people are not coming to buy and it led to say. they come to take their lives because you don't think their lives then will come after them they don't have it in will to pick. the best. that. many people have left to try their luck elsewhere most of them go to the cities. me and. 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
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fees. sometimes we don't even have money to eat at night. and are telling me as we've seen the images of dead migrants in the mediterranean sea. and he says my wife is praying for my safe boy it's the little boy coming along she knows i'm going to give our children a better future i know i'm going to him aboard i'm going to change something awful tonight. in new york and i was away at the plaza i would pray to god how long a boyish and the love in one of the god wants us to pray for us and to trust and have whatever happens at all about for today as i plan to. move.
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i'm a member of this house is being built by my brother who lives in a hostel and this one is by my brother and this is mine when i return i would like to tear it down and build a concrete one and also one for my mother and my man. was trying to find a lot of gold one that cares enough to live here and what not getting a good gun gun gun gun. you. know that people like sunny 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
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a travel agent. is getting some advice before he leaves. on the way they were very good to get the forecast. was good but not. all guys. are. the one for you to be. powerful. among. so many high up in a sort. of numb sort i never was high up to full can i meant that. if an image of a number of the long war. and i want. to know me from a non full mana bomb
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a font tech on channel. one or a mano number i love in a month or 2 with a walk never in a book up and telling john you know what i. am fond of number 9 i am what did it i am 10 yeah maybe a lady a damn can i stop am i eat all damn connection you had all it about us and about the old. you know my lincoln would amount to one man from someplace on lots of earth at the time a nominee. and not go when you're not well i got to see got to laughing. i'm to see you be laughing wendy i'm going to get off and then when i lived through one of his kind of you get back i. want to mistaken you know find sample munching to help and you know mom none too. soon for me to dinner when deformed in the wind
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but i got a piece in a glass on for me. to let you know by me 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 that because i won't have died stealing or robbing someone but because i wanted to give them a better future but it simply wasn't god's will and full time learn from the one that. it's hard to tell if someone's on that way to the markets or on my way to europe. some who decide to make the journey don't tell their families until they've already
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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.
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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 survived 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 fills so he needs to get back on his feet as quickly as possible yet 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. i've been a programmer and when they go back to work they're back at square one and refuse.
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to talk while. the nanton is who they have nothing and no one who can help them all really well give me the. job. migrants contribute a substantial share of financial aid to ghana 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 $31.00 the a.p. many italians were useless and sees it as giving calway the sassafras they're afraid of us because we're black almost last month and almost went.
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yes then it was a case and we are not the window commands to our foot in his very back only day knowing what they are doing. during our very souls with him for the money for so fucking to pay school fees and. i see anything a student. case something would close the responsibility or to focus. on or. not. now without money to do enough in the 1st year that i get it at the shop where they are going to get a better future. well
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. good afternoon i've. now mark is the. best of the times i've. ever done. something really clever one of her and one more. go with her mother hold your breath that all your mobile. i just need to go back. and do something for myself. nice now. i'm good. i'm glad.
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when you when you. come with. my ex welcome you for a new cong. one prepare sentence and then. have a heart king i want to know how much they are hiking on the 91 and how many. i want to come from time to mention are names. in touch. with are coming back for more and they stipulate we just know that you're selling tickets now just being with me because we won the triple crown who is going to be on a must do you forgive me if you don't quarrel with one of the guy you get a small miss with you yeah the 1st move is not many are you someone out. there you thought embankment.
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is i'm on now doing this bum thing why this remember who owned the course my mother used to do this in. just going to go back to moving go go back to africa like this will go left africa possibilities to open you grew up with i just like it's not that there's a white fan example but. how many years i spent in this country and i'll go back to my country. to me i know that one day one day when the these guys who i thought my previous and i ought you might meet. me at the town of techy mountain one man has made it his mission to revitalize the local tomato industry when he returned home to ghana some years ago with apollo or for it was shocked by what he saw defunct factories desperate farmers and tons of
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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 whilst we're stockbrokers produce and on a lot of very large scale in 510 years we want to see their whole life. changes and to produce a quality. to matters. many attempts have been made to revive the land to not to 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. bargain i think guy that just gonna provide run
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everything in there you can because this is home we are. one as the new have got until off work then they will go after the. migrating. into the military man where they will die. if the government wants to make sure that the industries survive hearing on the house to be aware of perfect in the industrious office like reducing the reports from outside into the country but if the government does not provide that comfort zone then the competition that i brought up before us unfortunately. if the tomato a factory were given a fat chance it might help boost the region's fortunes. trade policies could support development and struggling countries rather than indirect.
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that benedict his family might be able to and a living from tomato farming her husband could remain at home. and if he did decide to work in europe for a while he might be able to travel back safely and live and work in fact conditions . surely. fairly mostly. mean yes or no always he. learns to. live yeah every morning we talk and every evening we talk feel on certain days you see young men with backpacks walking with 10 but you know that they're going to the
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desert for if i fell and still feel someone left a week ago but i haven't heard if he's arrived or not. and as far as the danger goes we humans can die and we can live this journey out just like our life and you might win or you might lose but that's why they make this journey and if.
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