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. the g.a.o. where mr alito 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 a good idea. was . very happy. that. i don't like depending on others with the work. and all of them on the but our land doesn't produce any saying 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 other countries take care of us. and the government of kenya. knows that the drought causes problems but it ignores us. we could sustain ourselves the government could build a water tank. and an irrigation system to water as fields. but. it was 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. has been on continuous famine relief because that is literally. going on because all buckwild we'll be right

if we have something to do to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to be done. so it's a mental challenge for the country if we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop we're going to much 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 opinion from us producing grain. and among us 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 into 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 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 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 good 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 thousand sixty is 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 to actually that just meant the subsidies that you are buying into fertilizer seeds and the entire group cultural extension services where you move 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 we're talking now it is a basket case we are a net food imported country. so what happens you don't

have enough to feed the people so you have do a day in court and if you don't have enough money to support 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 the city to escape hunger. i was a farmer but i didn't always have 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 expense says. here it is better because someone may pity and help here. without a welfare system the citizens of kabera must pay for everything even public toilets

since houses don't have these luxuries. the average commuter is to roughly two dollars that is a most probable one 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 fleet week of the food yes. there's no. it's free market. we have somebody people can't afford to be really food because the body. 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 it's the 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. i only skimmed the maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. it is that it serves me is if my mom know dad would come at school kids would do over to do the street hungry with. the food that each year to fill much room that would eat out the difference and bring so many. posts assuming.

you moved was to foods in that i'm going to just take a deceptive budget on that but i won't let someone know that i'm on a lot of existing almost made goods i don't go to china how about just keeping. them so that even then they may just see that up for you fancy stuff love love you she is being flip as a child she has a good. bit of it. mission free credit take three stores just free. range lunch free. free. free. free bargains plug in video for your media project a free media oh don carty dot com.

let me let me let me ask you a question. here on this network as we're having a debate we have our knives out. but if you give the slightest bad steak never get here in the fifth way it will be an ideal way to talk about your name and me. was. my.

food is so many things it's a life support. issue it is an economic is eel is a bug through our development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as no less you do not i was so different in the means and the infrastructure of using and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent or so out of the land in africa is cultivating and and that tells you that all we need is to then invest in these farms but again because of the dependency culture what we are seeing is that the political elites

have been selling and listen this lands to for us. we are not investing in farming as part of us to take security element for a 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 that they thought should be put towards helping him put security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and he lease this farm for twenty five vs and number twenty five vs the renewable. was worth what you would like for the american investor introduced himself through the church claiming that he wanted to help eradicate poverty by offering new jobs and food. i. want to. 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. you need to 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 they coming to transform a lackey. and we really celebrated at the time the medals coming. this thing timed out to be something that was. one. of. the communities agreed the company would take a swamp and transform it into a fertile field while simultaneously undertaking projects for the public's benefit . drainage works began in 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 he hates the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one drive. and so they got completely ruined and. the house started leaning. on and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you. know. 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 that 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 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 came in and said 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 and same here i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was cultivating underselling yeah i had some sugar cans here some yams groups under so many things and even on the arms and 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 all these not just you can't learn the cause you've learned here today what comes and. those who are going to work here know. that time was a rich man and that's why i left the looking for jobs and they will be to come here and create employment for myself and have a decent life life. after twenty five blocks of maize in one day. i'm back when all is not lost we can hardly get a bag of maize so on demand noone has to get to the back bays and yet now. more poorer than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before.

give the communities one to use part of the swarm 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 potion that was given to they invest to us yesterday why don't they also go on a drain of a pot that is like bad. government is sitting in the offices and they will be i think the american people help they destroy 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 still in colonial days.

we have to. leave the. minerals. to the investments in the new sources so it's his mistress. that is a productive assets and therefore we have to run proud to be with it. in the next three years if the trend continues i think they can and community within the. appearance for really for depending on. the nationals is not treated 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 projects. the dam may hold some of the rain water 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 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. the problem really about funding now for it is no it's about drugs it's about how we have money all politics. so to to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering

a few bugs of grain to the people we see as telling we need to start interrogating the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in their over the ages end up having no food at all.

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