privileges that the rest of us on to entitle to while the government has pushed through budget cuts to the national health service and slashed welfare as part of an unprecedented austerity drive there are those that say that prime minister david cameron's promise that grayson is all in it together doesn't include the queen of england. after the break we take a look at the wave of famine that ravaged the horn of africa in two thousand and eleven and put millions on the brink of starvation stay with us for that.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome to the big picture. 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 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 forty 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 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 used 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. was a good i. was . 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 prise us a soda. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland a mess a mess. and the problem. we. have met al and we appreciate that other countries take care of us that are going to go the government of kenya. knows that 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. its image. 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. imo because for example we have no fields as a matter the model when we proposed to our government to construct a good water supply lines thank you 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 a bitter bitter 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 be that night so it is a major challenge for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop those who call the module of my generation the people and the side of the country. it is only a so 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 them 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 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 in putting food. at the expense of the cause 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 goodies that caused guaranteed minimum

returns we can means that if you. 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 out alone because if you good if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next and the country would stuff and that's why in the name ten sixty is the name hundred seventy s. 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 lustrous you know 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 that sure 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 near talking now it is a basket because we are a net food imported 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 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 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 as 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 to 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 have to. school fees you have to buy food you have to buy food with the food yes. ms no. it's free market. we have somebody really people can't afford to be really food because the body. moved 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 mean if they did that they get so they going to school move so they have bad flu time eat i mean addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i don't lose jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my phone. this is a terrorist me is if my mom moved dad would come at school kids would do over to do the street hungry. each year to feel much more than who each

i begged him to bring so my. hopes assume i. maybe have the right to food in that i don't. just say i just got to say on that but i won't let someone know that i'm i think the only words i just mean always made dance and they teach and i just keep being here so that even then be made to see that you fancy stuff love love in she's being flat as gentle as she was. was. that it. was. killing it without the federal official some of. us choose to consent you.

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so many things. i like the support. you you see. it is an economic is eel is sub zero drug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependant as known as you not i was sober and in the me and the infrastructure abusing 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 only need is to then invest response but again because of the dependency culture what you're seeing is that the political elites have been selling and listen this line to for us. we're not investing in farming us 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.

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. 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 to be coming to transform alaska and we 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. the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they 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 willing to put as many animals drowned everything i had was taken by the water. which is killing people. everything from people and. it is very 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 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 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 canes here

some yams roots 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. close to our own food no we can't have the money to pay school fees for the children because of these not just 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 the looking for jobs in a row be to come here and create employment for myself and have a decent life life. after twenty five blocks of ways 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 get 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 this one there is 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 a pot that is lying back. and our government is sitting in the office as an arrow b. 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 good work so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say this by to have still in colonial days. we have to strive to be just like us you know after the minerals. the us has in the sources so excess ministries. is a productive and therefore we have to run promptly with it. in the next three years if the trend continues i think the kenyan community will really. appears for more relief or depending on. nationals is known 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 turkana gather water for the next drought. when our screens are again flooded by images of starting off or 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 see drove us just an excuse that we use in order to you know make the aid industry appear to be effective julie the horn of africa receives more rain than soda rabia than even the drought but you know tide 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 i'll post it. so the tools to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop i guess 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 up with guns in their religious end up having no food at all.

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know your job you. really lose when you lose it when you didn't you know who it was who were forced to. leave. least.

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