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 thus a wry 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 in u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayer's 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 the reader have a good however. i

was. very happy for her. that. i don't like depending on others with the work. that much and all of them other than i 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. 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 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

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 through that part of the country. to be in. continuous form a narrative because that is literally true development. because all. we are glad we have something to say to you know eighty ninety percent of the people going out to the donate so it is a mentor chided for the country in the hope in that with a new constitution would up with will develop 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. you know in a must it becomes difficult for every request 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 to send it to becomes easier for you to skim over 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 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 do if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that is why in the one thousand sixties a name hundred seventy s. when 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 a structural adjustment the subsidies that were going 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 did 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 they import and if you don't have enough money to import 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 kabera must pay for everything even public toilets since houses don't have these luxuries. the average computer is two fluffy 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 you have two. hundred square feet you have to buy food you have to buy food with the food yes. there is no only delicious it's free market.

we have somebody really people going to for the daily food because the body. moved everything to each. ward. for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the pupils in canberra schools. i have to 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 to me and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i don't lose jim good to maybe i could just roll up my stuff. and maybe

help my fund. it is it sure is me is it's my mum moved dad would come at school kids would do over to do the street hungry but. this would lead to e.t.s. to feel much warmer than who eats out the difference to bring so more good seeds codes assume. you may be able to foods in that i'm. just. i just got to play on that but i won't let someone know that i'm on the other words i just you know i don't. know how but just keep being here so that even then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love as she is being with us when she was

a good girl who was. it. was. she good laboratory kirby was to build a new age most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything change mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and where this is why you should care. only.

many thanks. alison. did you issue. it is an economic easy isabeau drug development it is

so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as no less you not i was sober and in the me and the infrastructure using and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and not claim to be independent sixty percent of. our blood in africa is cultivatable and and adept tells you that all we need is to then invest in this pumps but again because of the dependency culture what we are seeing is that the political elites have been selling and listen to this line too 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 presence 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 van american mom called mr cullen by this and his family they had some money but they thought should be put towards helping him put secure. in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and in east this farm four hundred

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 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 hottest 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 really celebrated at the time tamils 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. 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 and. the house started leaning. and so we demolished and rebuilt us 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 killing animals taking everything from 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 come here and say we have floods 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 inside 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 groups under so many things going on yes 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 nargis you can't learn the cause you plant here today what i come from.

those who are going to work you 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 ways and 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 this one this one is about six hundred thousand make us it does not belong to us we only have seventeen thousand take us

why do we have mean it is always complaining about the person that was given to the investor. yesterday why don't they also go on a drain of a pot that is flying back. with our government is sitting in the offices in aerobic as in the american people help they do this to their. grads coming from outside the nation all over every time they need. what 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 but we're still in colonial days. and we have to strive to live. just like us you know after the. us was in the. choices ministries.

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 make appearance for more relief or depending on who are doing. 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 than 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 rainwater 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 industry appear to be effective 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 not about drugs it's about how we have money. so the tools to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop us delivering a few bugs of graeme to the people we see starving we need to start getting the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in their over

the years end up having no food at all.

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