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 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 balt 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. where mr leto 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 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 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 i mean yes yet it was a god did i have yet i. did not have a god who gave you haven't heard was. that like you i don't like depending on others with the work that well and i'm not all that much and all of them other than the but our land doesn't produce any saying and deprives us of sued. or did a month ago was so some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland i mean

the mist and the rubber. met out one and we appreciate that as our countries take care of us that are going to go to the government of kenya. knows that the drought causes problems but it ignores us. we could sustain ourselves and the government could build a water tank. and an irrigation system to water as fields. but. it was one with people who like to work. it's emitted. 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 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. because all buckwild we'll be right if we have something to do to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to

the donate. to cement a strategy for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop those who come up short of my generation the people and the kind of communities that 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 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 in tons of the send it to becomes easier for you to skim over 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 importing food. at the expense of course of the starving people as opposed to having kenyans 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 to top up so that you don't go at a loss because if you good if you good laws you will not. plan to the next

and the country would stuff and that's is why in the name in sixty is the name hundred seventy s. when there was a monk. 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. asked us actually that just meant the subsidies that were going mean to fertilize the seeds and the entire gutteral extension services were removed and this extension service is now have to be paid and because people did not have money to pay the never consulted extension orcus so the food production just slumped and as we're 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 do able to 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. when i was a siren or 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 commuter 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. there's no legal issue it's free market. we have somebody really people can't afford to be really food because the burden. moved by everything to each. war. for decades now the world food programme organisation 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 milk so they have bad flu technique and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. the onus jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. the things that serves me is it's my mom no dad will come at school kids food in order to do the street hungry but. the flip that each year to the much more than the good eats out the difference in rings so my. posts assume. you've moved out of the room to foods in that i'm going to just say i just saved

the today on that but i won't let someone know that i was on the awards i just can almost make sense i don't want to go to china how about just keeping him down so that till then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love as in she is being flip has jumped ship as it was. live. mission free credit take three days for charges free. range mission free. free. free. old free broadcast quality video for your media project a free media dogcart dot com. or you. the.

let me let me i want to wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network as we're having the debate we have i not. been able to get the scientists back staying there to get here and. talk about the

surveillance. is so many things. i listen but. did you issue. it is an economic is zero is sub zero drug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you food dependent as no less you do not i was sober and in the me and the infrastructure using 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 cultivated 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 law too for us. we are not investing in farming us part of us to take the 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 by an american man called mr cullen by this and his family they had some money but they thought should be put towards helping in food security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and denise 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. in my.

view like bussy the new dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. kidney it promised to give us work so that no one would be unemployed. there would be great changes it would build schools it would 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 a lack and we really celebrated at the time tamils coming. this thing turned out to be something that was. 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 he hates the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they got completely ruined world and then. the house started leaning. on did and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you.

all well 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 up and 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 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 in favor i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was a cultivating underselling yeah i had some sugar cans here some yams

groups under so many things and even on ian's under the models i was selling those and maybe if not very badly 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 this you can't plan the clothes you planned here today what comes and. those who are going to work you know. that time was a rich man and that's why i left. looking for jobs in a row be to come here and create an employment for myself and have a decent life life. you could face up to twenty five bucks of ways in one day. i'm back when all is not lost you can hardly get

a bag of maize so on demand noone has to get the days 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 acres it does not belong to us we only have seventeen thousand acres why do we have communities always complaining about the potion that was given to the investor. yesterday why don't they also go on a drain of the other part that is flying back. with our government is sitting in the office as an aerobic as in the american people health but there's to be. grants coming from outside the nation all over every time they need

food. but we have found by as well very very hard work so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say they suspect we are still in colonial days. and we have to strive to be just like us you know after the minerals. in the middle of sources so excess ministries. and therefore we have to run promptly with it. in the next three years if the trend continues i think they can and community will really. appears for more really for depending on. good national 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 programme n.g.o.s and the government how 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 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 as sea drove to us just an excuse that we use in order to you know make the aid in the street appear to be fair to 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 the africa 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. stop just 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 eventually makes individual africans in the rural villages end up having no food at all.

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