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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 ballz 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.
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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. 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 there are maining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. that mean yes yes the right way i have a good idea that i. was
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. very happy that i was. like you i don't like depending on others with of what think about. all that much and all of them on the but our land doesn't produce any saying and to prize as a salute. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland i mean i missed in the world. met out on one and we appreciate that other countries take care of us. the government of kenya. knows that the drought causes problems but it ignores us.
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we could sustain ourselves and the government could build a water tank. and an air a geisha system to water us fields. but. it was one with people who like to work. it's. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked. it is a good work but we don't like to be idle that is why they could help us by giving us work. imo because for example we have no fields as a mother the 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
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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 literally true development going on because all buckwild we are glad we have something to to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to the night so it is a mentor strategy for the country in the hope in that with a new constitution would up with will develop those who could emerge one of my generation people and the side of the country.
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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. in 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 my stuff 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 such becomes easier to make more money in putting food. at the expense of the cause of the starving people as opposed to having kids producing more food for themselves.
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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 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 why in the name in sixty is the name hundred seventy s. and there was among the who was net food exporting countries.
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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.
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after structural that just meant the subsidies that you are buying into fertilizer into seeds and the entire 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 need food importing countries. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have do a they import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid.
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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 has a crop. i needed money to feed the cows but i had none. when i had
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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. cheery 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 computer is to roughly two dollars but 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 yes. there's no legal issue it's free market.
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we have somebody really people can't afford the daily food because of the burden because moved by everything to each. wall. 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 meaning of the day that they get so they going to school move so they have bad flu time eat and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school.
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just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. to do their share is me is if my mom move dad will come at school kids would do over to do the street hungry but. the flip that e.t.f. did bill much more than who eats i would lead him to bring so much. posts assume. you've moved out of the room to foods in that way i think i'd just say i just got to date on that but i won't let someone know that i was under the old world's existing almost made sense i don't need to shout out how about just keeping. them so that to them then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love and she is being with us john she has
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a good school. but it. was. wealthy british style. time to explain your target. market why not. find out what's really happening to the. economy mix colors are there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report on our. food
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is so many things. i like the support. it is an economic 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
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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. 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've seen is that the political elites have been selling and listen to this line too for us. we're not investing in farming just part of us to take security element for the country.
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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 the lease these farm for twenty five vs and number twenty five vs but he knew it. was too much what you would like. the american investor introduced himself through
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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. 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 big coming to transform alas and we
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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 teeth of the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they've got completely ruined and.
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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 willing to put that many animals drowned everything i had was taken by the water.
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which is killing people killing everything from people and. invading vista for who. we are not the course but what happened ca 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 came in 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 .
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i was cultivating inside here i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was under selling yeah i had some sugar canes here some yams groups under so many things and even on your arms 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. close to our 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 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 the looking for jobs in a row b.
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to come here and create an employment for myself and have a decent life like. after twenty five blocks of ways and one. i'm back when all is not lost we can hardly get a bag of maize so on demand noone has to get to get back in days and yet now. more poor than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before. give the communities one to use part of it this one then 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
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a drain of the other part that is lying back. with our government is sitting in the office as an aerobic as in the american people health but 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 still in colonial days. we have to strive to be just like us you know after the. us was in the new sources so it's his ministry. is. it and therefore we have to run proudly with it. in the next three years
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if the trend continues i think the kenyan community will really make appearance for more really food depending on board. national is more truly 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.
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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 as sea drove to us just an excuse that we use in order to you know make the aid in the streets to be fair to chile the horn of africa receives more rain than soda rabia
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than even a drop but you know touch the saudis their own money is pleading for food aid. to the problem really about funding now for is no it's about drugs it's about how we have money all politics. so the tools to help with the african person. we need nor stop i guess delivering a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving we need to start in total getting the global food system and how it been truly makes individual africans and their over the ages end up having no food at all.
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