choose the stories that in your life choose the access to your office. in july two thousand and eleven the horn of africa was struck by

a wave of famine and. again our screens were flooded with images of a may see that africans. over thirteen million people in somalia kenya ethiopia eritrea and djibouti are once

again threatened by famine. the u.n. approaches the international community for immediate food aid. you know the only thing you notice are children from the most horrific that we've seen in years and. we grew up learning about africa as hunger problems.

that the african people always suffer from hunger and the so-called developed world always tends food. is there perhaps something wrong with the food aid mechanism. if you're looking at all this money that has been pumped in the fifty's and you're still starving. then it means that something's not right incomes or the interest of those will put you to be assisted in kenya or any other african country to improve their food security one of the hate. between the movie popped. and you can see it in even to be many

ways because it becomes almost like. a business. to do what. it given once you put together speaking we're looking at a very wealthy continent which has been now sustained into public teat just before the aid in the street and that's why we need to put two and. these approach both language aid as i would or you know changing the predicament. if the computer will.

yeah. yeah. yes. northern kenya was one of the regions affected during this recent famine wave. the land is arid and barren. that was. how i never. am carried here that was written i am the turkana are this region's inhabitants one of kenya's most traditional tribes that

were never. forgotten my. dad did that with. their nomadic pastoralists for centuries they have learned to survive on this harsh land depending on the rain periods. i. have never yet. i. but in recent years the ongoing droughts threaten their very existence. i guess that yeah. i guess in northern kenya we had a year with basically no rain and tools to come in a region as seen. successive droughts of the past few years and what we're seeing is the stress of getting more and more frequent so the rain is becoming less and less common. the traps left many of the animals is very very weak so people didn't

have that didn't have the usual income. of. manu titian level is really short term. not what the global acute malnutrition rate is fifteen percent in some areas of true country it was up to thirty seven percent that is more than double. the. yard work i had to go to. i mean to go to not five and they all died. even then we couldn't eat them.

your little boy in my small field was of no help the seeds died before they could sprout. a year young it was a bad year without trained we couldn't plant anything. there was great hunger but. even the wild fruit became rare. rule when my sister died last year during the long drought that. she was old and as there was no food. you know she died and i came to take care of her children. there was no food or water because it was too dry and a lot of the. animal in the way. that you probably

know how bad it was last year on the way most animals died. you get this is a man's tomb and the other two are women. they died of hunger. there was no food and the government didn't help. if hope would come sooner with these people have been saved a year that all the guests they would be alive and these tombs wouldn't exist you've gone.

up she was complaining that she was hungry and thirsty. arguably. all of them are back with it she couldn't sustain herself they are working now but everybody knows we need food and water to live. included in. how long after her death did the food arrive. after five months. it is chilling to say the least to hear that the two thousand and one drought had been predicted and that lives could have been saved if the system functioned

differently the drug does not happen just like switching on and off of. drugs is something that comes with being a period of time. after ethiopia's famine in one thousand nine hundred fourteen one thousand nine hundred five which left one million victims the us created a forecast system for dangerous droughts in order to avoid similar tragedies in the future. in two thousand and ten this system had already warned of things to come.

yeah we saw it coming and we've been warning for months before you know people were paying attention death sometimes to a problem you know the problem often with the world attention is that sometimes. people only play pay attention if you see the dying children. but i will warning systems nowadays our knowledge is so sophisticated that we know months in advance we've been warning about this since the for the before the crisis happened because we could see that the rains weren't good enough. but people were left to starve. they had to die before the international community was mobilized. wealthy british soil some time to buy supplies for.

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the problem is the government spiced national and international donors so also the the shroud of turin from its. during its always acts as quickly as they can. and it takes unfortunately it takes you know those pictures on t.v. screens to really mobilize public opinion and get governments and politicians interested in the crisis. when it becomes of more interest to the international media then you tend to get a very strong public response which is extremely helpful wish pushes the politicians into action because when the public has about it the politicians know they need to do. spoken because. their public expects them to do so.

unfortunately you know action could have been taken at the start of two thousand and eleven or earlier in the year. vick should really have stopped it becoming such a big crisis but unfortunately. far too often the action isn't taken until it's too late and so people are already suffering. and it's not the first time that the turkana people receive help. international organizations and then goes have been visiting their area for the last fifteen years. and they always welcome them with joyous

songs day i. am damn. a week. now that we hammer. about milo not that i don't know. you mother me are not your mother no no no i didn't. i didn't know they provide them with food that accident the children and check them for signs of malnutrition.

on the way did you come from. the from the tell of. how far is motel over. many hours away which means that i left for the sunrise. for decades turkana have been living in a constant state of hunger. they belong to one billion people around the world who have no access to their daily nourishment while at the same time more food than ever is being produced on the planet. contrary to crisis periods this chronic hunger phenomenon rarely reaches the evening news. never the less it is deadly.

it kills over fifteen million people yearly. three times more than those killed during the gear of the second world war. approximately six and a half million of them are children eighteen thousand die every day. to fight hunger the international community decided to distribute food to those in need. however since its birth in one nine hundred fifty four and until today food aid has never been a matter of sheer humanitarianism it's been a matter of economic and political correlations with the u.s. playing the leading role the simple reason everyone focuses on u.s. food aid policy is us accounts for more than half of all the world's food aid so as

goes the united states so goes the global food aid regime you know the united states is providing fifty to sixty percent of the world's food aid any given year all of europe combined only provide fifteen to twenty percent. of the. we have given much to the impoverished peoples of europe one simple thing about i'm sorry. but as a countermeasure against the attempt by the soviet union to come you know if you're up the american people start with the strategy for cooperating with the non communist countries in a comprehensive bipartisan european recovery program. after the success of the marshall plan which delivered tons of food to western europe. in

one thousand nine hundred eighty four president eisenhower signed a famous public law for eighty whatever you can the new laws purpose was to distribute the u.s. agricultural surpluses serving at the same time as a tool for economic and foreign policy which would help promote the country's interests. according to the president's own words the new law lays the basis for expanding our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples of other lands. oh and the pope and the military our football. team are going to break the bonds of their very we play our best effort to help them help them battle. or whatever period is required not because i mean it may be doing it not because we

think they're both but the call of duty is right in one thousand nine hundred eighty one president kennedy acknowledged public love for eighty as being a fundamental importance to the united states and renamed it food for peace. so the primary objective of food aid policy was surplus disposal but it had a secondary objectives the hope that it would also build future export markets for u.s. agricultural commodities and that it could achieve humanitarian objectives associated with reducing hunger and under-nutrition and that it could perhaps with some our allies abroad. with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer civilian foreign aid. is. the

u.s. government for spreading many foreign policy through human dignity and. systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars. during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall today it was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror.

if you are took aboard diplomacy it's a bit of subtle way of pushing a message on agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even in a more suchness training elephants for their training even cheap and since they use food isn't it if you don't train a chimpanzee to dance like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next day and vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up see what i mean. from very early on africa became the focus of attention as the u.s. and soviet union were trying to gain zones of influence countries like somalia ethiopia and kenya received help.

there's a little peace is good as it would be easy to prove to them or the police does that mean that the united states is doing business to actually be providing you know the time. there's no politics behind it it's going in there we're trying to do things in a way that is most effective way to save lives so i don't think that criticism really holds true. i'm honored to work for this organization i think we do fabulous workers who are partners in the united nations and it's really inspiring. when they bug out arrives with an american plug on need from the american people.

if they're the first thing is this appreciation of the american people because if somebody helps you then you have to appreciate the. country that assists your people in this tough being each day approach you to bring in that invests. you see the be very much willing to tell them good them come and if you're not just doing the the the funding in the hole in last year. the child needs to study what their wisdom come to salute the chinese also for the first time brought their food aid complete with trucks there was almost as much as that wait a minute this food aid thing is not just the tusk another soaked up process in terms of winning all over the country to dominate over to push their budgets across the globe.

apart from helping foreign policy food aid also had other benefits and help with internal affairs namely the large american agribusiness and shipping companies. but there are other important beneficiaries lurking in the shadows one are agribusinesses and i emphasize agribusinesses rather than for. farmers because very little food aid is sold by farmers directly that sold by large firms the great hidden beneficiary for u.s. food aid and this is distinct from any other food aid program in the world are the shippers. the zero super simply the filters of three new fees along with disciplining new.

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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. the marker see it's a step forward. corrects it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. 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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