over thirteen million people in somalia kenya ethiopia eritrea and djibouti are once again threatened by famine. the un approaches the international community for immediate food aid.

with. the monster winter we've seen years in rooms where we grew up learning about africa's hunger problems.

the african people always suffer from hunger and the so-called developed world always sends food. is there perhaps something wrong with the food aid mechanism. if you're looking at all this money that has been pumped into the fifty's and you're still starving then it means that something is not right in problems of the interest of those who are putting it to be assisting kenya or any other african country to improve their food security put on hate public what i'm to movie people. and you can see it in a bit of the many ways because it becomes almost like. like a business is. to do what. is given once you can put together speaking we're looking at

a very wealthy continent which has been now sustained into public t.v. just before the aid industry and and that's why we need to put two and. these approach both language aid as i would or you know changing the predicament of the african people.

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. was 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 give that money and yet we. are in northern kenya and we had a year with basically no rain at all to qana region is seeing. successive droughts of the past few years and what we're seeing is the stress getting more and more frequent and the rain is becoming less and less common. the travelers left many of the enemy was very very weak so people didn't have that didn't have the usual income. money trisha live was really short on. what the global acute malnutrition bricked fifteen percent

in some areas of true can it was up to fifty 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 to seeds died before they could sprout. a year young it was a bad year without train we couldn't plant anything. there was great hunger. even the wild fruit became rare.

a rule my sister died last year during the long drought that. she was old and as there was no food. she died and i came to take care of her children. while. 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 tumor 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 would these people have been saved a year old they guess they would be alive and these tombs wouldn't exist you don't . she was complaining that she was hungry and thirsty for a while arguably. all of the above with she couldn't sustain herself. but everybody knows we need food and water to live. it with it 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 the end of electricity grow 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 to four 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. good laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only on the.

more. the problem is that it's governments both national and international journalists and also the bush monitoring trinity. during its always acts as quickly as they can . and it takes unfortunately it takes you know those pitches 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 which pushes the politicians into action because when the public has about it then the politicians where they need to to respond because. their public expects them to do so. unfortunately you know action should have been taken at the start of two thousand and eleven or earlier in the year. victory really of 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 n.g.o.s have been visiting their area for the last fifteen years . and it will always welcome them with joyous song. ok. i am.

ever. did. not violate no no no no no. no no no no not your mother no no no no i didn't i mean i didn't know they provide them with food that accident the children and check them for signs of malnutrition . on the way that you come from. from the tell of. how far is motel over. many hours away which means that when i left for the sunrise.

for decades the 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 and of 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 come you know if you're up the american people sharpen 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 the famous public law for eighty whatever. 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. said oh it's great growth and the deleterious effect on our football. if you're going to break the bonds of their pedigree we bet the effort to help them help them. all whatever period is required not because the communists may be going it not because we think they're both but we are getting it 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 a 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 beyond many foreign policy through. 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 so 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 have took aboard diplomacy it's a very subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even more so because of training elephants for their training even cheap and since they use food isn't it if you don't train much but it can dance like

a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next time then they tell 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 doesn't mean that the united states is doing business to actually providing food to the the time. there's no politics behind 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 the bug arrives with a number complied with needs 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 that. for a country that assists your people in this topping they approach you to bring in

the investments. you see the be very much willing to tell them good them come and if you're not just doing the the funding in the whole in last year. the child needs to study what their wisdom comes with doing the chinese also for the first time brought their food aid complete with trucks there was a must of much is that wait a minute this food aid thing is not just the tusk another soaked up torch in terms of winning over a country to dominate over to push their value cycles the globe. apart from helping foreign policy food aid also had other benefits and help with internal affairs and lead a large american agribusiness and shipping companies. but there are other important

beneficiaries lurking in the shadows one are agribusinesses and i emphasize agribusinesses rather unfair. 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. i. say.

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