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 yet. that was. very very happy.

that. i don't like depending on as heirs with the work. and all of them other than i but our land doesn't produce anything and to prizes a soda. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holiday. i missed. that one and we appreciate that as our countries take care of us. 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 with people who like to work. it's emitted. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked yet. 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. would be in. continuous famine relief because that is a bit early to development going on because all but what we are bright we have. to know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to do that night so it is a mentor strategy for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop and those who come 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 green.

in the 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 off from that the food if it's not about food aid it will be about import food importation so it becomes easier to make more money importing food. at the expense of course 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

a police cause 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 would top up so that you don't go at a loss because if you good if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that's why in the one thousand cities a nineteen seventies because 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 why was kinda so enduring because they need aid from the world bank because they need aid from the i.m.f. there 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 structural adjustment the subsidies that you are buying into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services were

removed and this is a cinch and services 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 then it's a basket because we are a net food importing country. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to say they import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. behind 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 lizzie expense says. 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 commuter is two roughly two dollars that is a woman 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 fully electricity have to pay for school fees you have to buy food you have to buy food with the food yes. there's no. it's free market. we have so maybe many people can't afford to be billy food because of the bad if you. buy 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 if they 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 with your. own lives jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. the things that serves me is is my mom no dad leukoma tool good food in order to do is to leave hungry but with.

those with the to each year to fill much more than would eat i would like them to bring so much of it was needs help to assume. the. mood of the room and foods in that i'm. just stating i just to got to say on the bad i won't let someone know that i was in the oh it's just you know motivated by the ones i didn't go to china how about just keeping. them so that you and then they may just see that up with your fancy stuff love love and she is being floated as a champion she was a good listener who. was a little bit.

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is so many things it's a life support. it. is you. it is an economy that is evil is sub zero drug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you would dependent as no less you not i was sober and in the me and the infrastructure producing 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

this pumps but again because of the dependence of culture what we've seen is that the political elites have been selling and listen the slant to for us. we are not investing in farming as 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 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. feel like bussing to new dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. it promised 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 hottest look at that we don't know who they would be food for everyone was for us was the biggest joy. so these multinational companies we thought big coming to transform a lad and we really celebrated at the time to minerals coming. this thing turned 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 loving rice crops. but as the inhabitants claim this intervention caused floods. not the heat to the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they've got completely ruined in the day. the house started leaning. 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 reeling with as many animals drowned everything i had was taken by the water. which is killing people killing. people and. it has been 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're not doing we're not even using we're not even in growing rice so there's a season when people give me and say we have floods 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 in favor here i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was a cultivating underselling yeah i had some sugar cans here some yams groups under so many things and even on ian's under the models i was selling those and maybe if not very bad i was an almost a getting one thousand

a day. to manage my family and now i've got nothing. to own food no we can't have money to pay school fees for the children because of these not this you can plan the clothes you planned here today what i can stand for liberty those who are 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. 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 saw or demand newness to get to the back bays and yet no. 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 it 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 person that was given to they invest us yes why don't they also go on a drain of the other part that is like bad. government is sitting in the offices an aerobic as in the american people help what they do is to their. 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 are still in colonial days.

and we have to strive to be just like us you know after the minerals. invest in the new sources so it's ministry's. it is a productive assets 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 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 turkana food provided that they work on the project.

the dam may hold some of the rainwater and help the economy 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 as sea drove to 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 no it's a boat drop it's about how we have money.

so the troops to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving 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.

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