according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise.

so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. to g.a.o. where mr works issued a report which presented the problem to congress president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo and u.s.

food aid programs. from the american taxpayers money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. that haven't yet. yet it was. was. very happy. that. i don't like depending on others with the work. and all of

them other than i but our land doesn't produce anything and to prise us a soda. out of what did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun. a long time yes i missed. that. one and we appreciate that other countries take care of us out of. the government of kenya. knows that the drought causes problems but it ignores us. we could sustain ourselves and the government could build a water tank. and an air a geisha system to water as fields. but. it was one we have people who like to work. it's emitted.

rather than receiving food for which we have not worked. it is a good work but we don't like to be idle. they could help us by giving us work. imo because for example we have no fields as a matter the model when we proposed to our government to construct good water supply lines thank you for our crops it's like talking to defeat is. we have appealed to the government many times. the government of kenya has utterly abandoned this district there are no roads water or electricity the state of kenya has built absolutely nothing. so it is true that part of the country. has been on continuous famine relief

because that is literally true. because all. we are glad we have something to to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to be that night so it's a cement just headed for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop and those who put them up short of my generation the people and the side of the country. it is obvious that the government of kenya prefers to ask for help from abroad in order to feed the starving turkana instead of doing infrastructure and development work in the area. millions of kenyan from us producing green. must it becomes difficult for a bureaucrat who wants to skim off ten percent to go moving from village to village asking that i need ten percent of the grain for my stuff but if it's food aid you

can put it tonnes of the same it becomes easier for you to skim off from that the food if it's not about food aid it could be about import food importation becomes easier to make more money in putting food. at the expense of because of the starving people as opposed to having kids producing more food for themselves. however before nine hundred eighty kenya not only produced but also exported products. the government had police because guaranteed minimum returns g.m. are weak means that. if you. invest in one because.

and they needed it's not enough to recover you a cost the government to top up so that you don't go at a loss because if you do if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that's is the way in the one nine hundred sixty s. the name hundred seventy s. when there was a mom. who was net food exporting countries. despite all this kenya was immersed in debt which couldn't be paid without international help it's just a clear lustration no a country that east coast by global forces to surrender policy making that to be. of strategic importance to its own citizens who i was kinda sorta enjoying because they need aid from the world bank because

they need aid from the i mean they were told if you don't change you don't get money from us. so everything including education health communication transportation energy and water follows the free markets rules. agriculture was no exception governmental support was withdrawn and farmers were now on their own. after a structural adjustment the subsidies that you are buying into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services where you moved and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people did not have money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped

and as we're talking now it is a basket case we are a net food imported country. so what our plants you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to able to import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. by nairobi skyscrapers and the shadows of the kenyan capital's luxuries lies kibera . it is one of africa's largest slums.

approximately three hundred thousand people try to survive here. many of them are immigrants from rural regions who came to the city to escape hunger. i was a farmer but i didn't always has a crop. i needed money to feed the cows but i had none. when i had a good crop i needed money again. to pay the workers to plow the fields i couldn't live like this it was all too much for one person i couldn't cope with the expenses. cheer it is better because someone may pity and help here.

without a welfare system the citizens of canberra must pay for everything even public toilets since houses don't have these luxuries. to roughly two dollars that is a must. and you have to pay for your room you have to buy a water you have to pay for the toilet to go to you have to pay full electricity you have to pay for school fees you have to buy food you have to buy food to make the food yes. there's no illegal issue it's free market. we have somebody people can't afford to be really food because the burden because moved by everything to each. war.

for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the pupils in canberra schools. at this school three hundred children receive aid. some of these children sometimes you see only mean a few did that they get so they going to school move so they have bad flu to meet and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i don't lose jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. the things that interest me is if my mom moved dad will become a tool we would do or to do is to leave hungry but with. the slim dutch each year to build much more than we would eat out of the difference and

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her. food is so many things. i love the support. it. is you. it is an economic is eel is a boat rule development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of

food dependant as no less you do not that was so different in the means and the infrastructure producing and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent of. utter bollocks in africa is contradicted and and adept tells you that all we need is to then invest this pumps but again because of the dependency culture what we are seeing is that the political elites have been selling and listen this line to for us. we are not investing in farming part of us to take security element for the country.

the american company dominion among other things builds prisons in the united states in kenya it is rented seventeen thousand hectors and produces food like rice dish and bananas mostly for the capital's big supermarkets. this farm. is an investment by an american man called mr cullen by this and his family they had some money but they thought should be put towards helping him put security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and the lease these farm for twenty five vs and number twenty five yes but he knew it.

was too much what you would like. the american investor introduced himself through the church claiming that he wanted to help eradicate poverty by offering new jobs and food. and i. thank you. for your message to new dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. as you did promise to give us work so that no one would be unemployed. there would be great changes it would build schools and it would give us part of its harvest look at that within the school but there would be food for everyone it was for us was the biggest joy.

so these multinational companies we thought to be coming to transform a lack and we really celebrated at the time to minerals coming. this thing timed out to be something. one. of. the communities agreed the company would take the swamp and transform it into fertile fields while simultaneously undertaking projects for the public's benefit. drainage works began and a cement dam was built in order to control the river gelis flow for the irrigation of the water letting rice crops. but as the inhabitants claim this intervention caused floods. much the way to the water came during the day and got inside our home.

the corn's one. and so they got completely ruined in the. the house started leaning. on and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you. all when i walked my whole body was underwater i know only this spot stayed above the water level. then i'm a little carried away by the water and we just did what can you do with a cal which you can't feed because the water has covered it completely willing to put it many animals drowned everything i had was taken by the water.

which is killing people killing. people and. it is very visible who. we are not the course but what happens here is when when people start to think politically when the river floods they think we have opened the gates and sometimes they come to us when we are not doing we're not even using we're not even in growing rice so there's a season when people get me and say we have floods down there they don't understand that the source of the river was flooded so the river would be flooding here so then they think it was a problem to do with us we have nothing to do with it we were just doing our things .

i was cultivating inside here i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was cultivating underselling yeah i had some chicagoans here some yams groups under so many things and even on the arms and the metals i was selling those and maybe if not very badly i was an almost a getting one thousand a day. to manage my family and now i've got nothing. close to our own food no we can't have the money to pay school fees for the children because all these not just you can plan the clothes you planned here today what it comes to and. those who are going to work here know.

that time was a rich man and that's why i left. looking for jobs in a row be to come here and create employment for myself and have a decent life like. it could fetch up to twenty five bucks of ways in one day. i'm back when all is not lost you can hardly get a bag of maize so on demand newness to get to the back bays and yet now. more poorer than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. is never there before. the community is one to use part of this one this one is about six hundred thousand acres it does not belong to us we only have seventeen thousand take us why do we have communities always complaining about the potion that was given to they invest

us yes why don't they also go on a drain of a pot that is lying there. and our government is sitting in the offices an aerobic as in the american people help they do this to their. grants coming from outside the nation all over every time they need food. but we have found my as well very very hard working so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say this i too have still in colonial days. we have to strive to leave me just like us you know after the. us was in the middle of sources so excess ministry's. is a productive and therefore we have to run proudly with it.

in the next three years if the trend continues i think the kenyan community will really make appearance for more really food depending on. nationals is known treaty sustainable for these countries. today is a joyous day in this community of the turkana region. the

people are harvesting their crops from the communal field. but their own hands they also build a smaller earth and dam. for this project to happen the world food program n.g.o.s and the government have to cooperate and all for the trick on a food provided that they work on the project. the dam may hold some of the rainwater and help the turkana gather water for the next drought. when our screens are again flooded by images of starting out for cans and the international community asks again for humanitarian aid then we will know that the drought is not the real culprit. in my view see drove us just an excuse that we use in order to you know make the aid in the street

appear to be fair to chile the horn of africa receives more rain than so did rabia than even the drought but you know touch the saudis their own money is pleading for food aid. the problem really about funding now for is no it's about drugs it's about how we have money. so to to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people he sees telling we need to start in total get to the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in their religious end up having no food at all.

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