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. the g.a.o. where mr leto 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 i mean yes. yes it was a good i. was . very happy i was.

like you i don't like depending on others with the work. of the and i'm not all that much and all of them of them but our land doesn't produce anything and deprives us of sued. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland i mean if i missed the boat we're. not met out on one and we appreciate that other countries take care of us that are going to go 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 irrigation system to water as fields.

but. there is one we have people who like to work. 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. yeah. because for example we have no fields as a mother when we proposed to our government to construct good water supply lines 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. as been on continuous famine relief because that is a bit of development going on because all. we are bright we have some deep to to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to do that night so it is a major tragic for the country if we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop and those who put them up short of my generation people and those kind of communities have 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 grain.

and a 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 myself but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of the same it becomes easier for you to skim over from that the food if it's not about food aid it will be about import food importation such 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 that caused 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 this is 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 among. 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 why was kinda so enduring 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. asked us truck sure that just meant the subsidies that were going me into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services where he moved and this is extensions of he says now

have to be paid and because people do not have money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped and as near talking now it is a basket case we have net food importing countries. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to a they import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. behind nairobi skyscrapers in 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 this 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 a-z. 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. the average computer is two 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 with the food and yes. there's no legal issue it's free market. we have so many many people can't afford the billy food because of 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 tell me i mean addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school in your. own lives jim good to maybe i could just grow up fast. and maybe help my funding. the things that serves me is if my mom lodi gluco much school kids would do over to do the street hungry but with.

the slim the two e.t.f. to bill much more than we would eat i would lead them to bring so much of it was needs help as soon as. the. you've moved you have the right to prudence in that i'm. just stating i just to got to get it on the but i won't let someone know that i was on a lot so i just you know mostly made sense i didn't get to shout out how about just keeping you down so that you and then be made to see that the human stuff love is love and she's being for it as gentle as she was a good rule of. law. a little bit.

choose your language call it we can without any financial literacy there is still some honest. truth is that if the concerns get a. chance to get opinions that invigorating a good mind. choose the stories that impact the life choose the access to your office to.

see. her. food is so many things is still alive support it is a set did it is you. it is an economic israel isabeau drug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you would dependent

as no less you do not that was so different in the me and the infrastructure using and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent of. our blood in africa is a country vegetable and and adept tells you that all we need is to then invest in this pumps but again because of the dependency culture what we are seeing is that the political elites have been selling and listen to slant to for us. we are not investing in farming as part of us to take the 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 in food security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and the least this 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. think you are bussing to new dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. to do it promised to give us work so that no one would be unemployed or local 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 really thought big coming to transform alas and we really celebrated at the time tamils coming. this thing about to be something that is. one. of. the communities agreed the company would take a 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. the water came during the day and got inside the home.

the corn's one. and so they got completely ruined in the day. the house started leaning. and so demolished and rebuilt the. oil i walked my whole body was underwater i know only this spot stayed above the water level. 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 happened see 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 came in and say we have floods here 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 sugar canes here some yams groups under so many things going on years under the models i was selling those and maybe if not a bit of bad 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 money to pay school fees for the children because of these not this you can't plan the clothes you planned here today what has come sunday. that was going to work you 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 an employment for myself and have a decent life life. you could face up to twenty five bucks always in one day. i'm back when all is not lost you can hardly get a bag of maize saw or demand newness to get a bit back in days and yet now. more poorer than we used to be because what we are experiencing now. as never before. give the communities one to use part of this one then this one is about six hundred thousand acres it does not belong to us we only have seventeen thousand acres why do we have communities always complaining about the person that was given to they

invest us yes why don't they also go on a drain of the other part that is lying back. with our government is sitting in the office is an aerobic as in the american people health they do. grants coming from outside the nation all over every time they need food. but we have found by as well very very hard work so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say this but we're still in colonial days. and we have to strive to. make us you know after the minerals. investment in the new 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 they can and community will really make appearance for more really food depending on. the national is more true to 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 programme n.g.o.s and the government how 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 starving africans 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 drought 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 soda rabia than even the drought but you know tides the saudis their own money is pleading for food aid. to the problem really about funding now for it is note about drugs it's about how we have money. so the troops to help with the african person. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people he sees telling we need to start interrogating the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in the rural villages end up having no food at all.

real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just

by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this bill's.

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