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portion of the food will be procured from local markets and that's 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 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 the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. that haven't yet. yet the rabbit rabbit i have yet.
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to hear you haven't heard. that. i don't like depending on others with the way. that much and all of them other than i but our land doesn't produce anything and to prise us a soda. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it was aired in the sun holland. 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 and the government could build
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a water tank. and an irrigation system to water us 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 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.
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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 literally true. because all. we all breath we have deep to to know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to be that night so it is a mentor chided for the country in the hope in that with a new constitution would up with will develop and 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 grain. you
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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 myself but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of the same it to 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 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
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products. the government had pulled these 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 get the laws you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that's is why in the one nine hundred sixty s. the 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
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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 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 actually that just meant the subsidies that were going into fertilizer into seeds and the entire
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cattle 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 need food importing countries. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to a they import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. behind nairobi skyscrapers and the shadows of the kenyan capital's luxuries lies
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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 this 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
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the expense says. here 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 two roughly two dollars that is the most probable 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 people can't afford to be really food because the burden because moved by everything to each.
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war. 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 you see only mean a few did that they get so they going to school move so they have bad flu tell me 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 funding. to do the tourist me is it's my mum no dad
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leukoma to school kids would do over to do steve hungry but with. the flood that each year to build much more than would eat i begged him to bring so much it was needs help as soon much. you claim you have been given to fluids in that i. just. i just saved the day on that but i won't let someone know that i'm on a lot so i just you know almost made sense i didn't get to tonight how about just keeping. them so that you and then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love you she is being fought as a jumping ship it's a good school. but it. was.
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pups stay safe forever. saving seals on r.t.e. . act. was. food is so many things is a life support. it. is you. it is an economic is evil is truly development it is so many things and therefore as long as you food dependent as no less you do not have silver and when the means and the infrastructure using and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent of. out of in africa you come to britain
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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 a strategic security element for the country. the american company dominion among other things builds prisons in the united
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states in kenya it is rented seventeen thousand hectors and produces food like rice fish and bananas mostly for the capital's big supermarkets this farm. is an investment bank 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 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 move dominion came here through the church. because it
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couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. to use it promised 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 a lack 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
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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 day of the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they got completely ruined and then. the house started leaning. on and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you.
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know. when i walked my whole body was underwater i know only this spot stayed above the water level. 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. people and. it is very visible who.
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we are not the course but what happened see 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 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 being a lot of 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 cans here some yams groups under so many things and even on yarns under the models i was
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selling those and maybe if not a bit about it 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 of these not this you can't plan the clothes you planned 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. looking for jobs in a row be to come here and create an 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 the back bays and yet now. more
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poorer than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before. give the communities one to use part of the swarm that 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 the drain of the other party that is lying bad. government is sitting in the offices in aerobic as in the american people help they do this to their. grants coming from outside the nation all over every time they need food. but we have
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found by as well very very hard work so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say this i too have still in colonial days. we have to strive to. make us you know after the. us was in the new sources so it's his ministry. and therefore we have to run proudly 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. good national is more true to sustainable for these countries.
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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
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turkana food provided that they work on the project. the dam may hold some of the rainwater and help the economy 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 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 now for it is no it's about drugs it's about how we have money
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. so the troops to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving we need to start eating tell getting the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in the rural villages end up having no food at all.
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we have had since developed the system took him quite our targets for specifically to make sure that the split the minimum number of innocent people per from go into a conflict guys like this. you see the number of civilians in cold steel and under that the reason why guys like these results of such targets was because of these
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very procedures that he just alone made. nobody chooses to be homeless no one chooses to me and now sorrow. isidro's for the show to. get in the six pm get out six beat six. they were a. school that. had to be the class people in. the word against someone. it's tough to think about all of them comes in. and to know that many may not have only been lost to choose to never believe me but there are also
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due to foreclosures that never should have. been. i. think. that's true. a. little you will live. in a little. sleepy little elim. little. the little.
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