money and technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the future covered. arguably america's influence is much larger than that of iran so with power comes responsibility greater responsibility would you agree with that in every negotiation on a round table the parties are equal they may be different in the degree of that but on this issue each side is negotiating with the other i'm trying to reach an agreement.

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 the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. that mean yes. yes it was a bad way did i. did i am a god who gave you haven't heard was. that like you i don't like depending on others with of what think of. all that much and all of them other than i but our land doesn't produce any saying and deprives us of so did. did

a month ago was so some wheat but it was aired in the sun the whole long the mess the mist and the rubber. met out one 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 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. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked. it is

a good work but we don't like to be idle that is why they could help us by giving us work. imo 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 true that part of the. continuous famine relief because that is a bitter bitter development going on because all buckwild we breath we have.

to know eighty nine percent of the people not going out to the night so it is a mental challenge for the country if we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop we can a much out 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 myself but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of to send it to becomes easier

for you to skim off from there 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 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 to 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's just the way you know one thousand and sixty is the name hundred seventy s. and there was among the 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 ought 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 structural adjustment the subsidies that were going into fertilizer into seeds and the entire agreed cultural extension services were removed and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people do not have the money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped and as near 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 do able to 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 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 a-z. 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 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 flitwick of food yes. there's no legal issue it's free markets. we have some really really people can't afford the billy food because of the baby because moved by everything to each. war. for decades now the world food program organisation has been providing food to the

pupils in canberra schools. as discord three hundred children receive aid. some of these children sometimes it's the only meaning of the day that they get so they can a school meal so they have bad flu time eat and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i've almost been good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. it is there seriously is if my mom moved dad would come at school kids would do over to do steve hungry but. this would that each year to them much more than who each other lived in to bring so much. hope assume.

you may be able to move to foods in that i'm. just saying hey i just saved the day on that but i won't let someone know that i was me are lots of justin almost made dance i want to chennai how about just keeping. them to the t.v. and then be made to see that up because my sister loves love us and she's being with us john show us the latest one. was. that it. was.

i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find life though larry king now right here on r.t. question more. sarin gold does not come easy. to ravish by poverty a country torn apart to play to athlete is life in golf's in a dirty war. when the peacekeepers leave only one of the world's poorest

nations i succumb to the next humanitarian catastrophe. watch our special coverage by us tonight sheila mali african he's. on our team. food is so many things it's a life support it's a saturday issue. it is an economic is evil is above development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as no less you not i was so different in the means and the infrastructure opened using and distributing food. then. you cannot

claim to be so free and not claim to be independent. sixty percent of. our beloved in africa is contradicted and and adept tells you that only needs to then invest this pumps but again because of the dependency culture what we've seen is that the political elites are being silly and listen. to for us. we're not investing in farming us part of us to take security element for the country. if.

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 fish 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 that they thought should be put towards helping him put security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and in east this farm for twenty five vs and number ten to five yes but he knew it. was too much work to do it 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 at bussey to move dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. to do 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 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 lad and we really celebrated at the time to minerals coming. this thing

about 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 spent if it . 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 way to the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they've got completely ruined world and. the house started leaning. and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you.

know. when i walked my whole body was underwater i know only this pot 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 it 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 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 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 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 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 money to pay school fees for the children because of these not just you can't plan the clothes you planned here today what comes and. does what you can't 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 employment for myself and have

a decent life like. you could face up to twenty five bags of maize and one day. i'm back when all is not lost you can hardly get a bag of maize saw or demand newness 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 that this one 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 to the other part that is lying back. with our 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 found my as well very very hard working 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 be just like us you know after the us. the us was in the middle of sources so excess ministry's. is 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 for depending on who would do. the 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 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 out for 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 is seed drought us just an excuse that we use in order to you know make the aid industry appear to be fair to chile the horn of africa receives more rain than soda rabia than even the ground but you know touch the saudis

their own money is pleading for food aid. the problem really about funding now for is no it's about drugs it's about how we have money. so the troops to help with the effort compulsion. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving we need to intel 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.

nobody chooses to be a holes nobody chooses to me and now sorrow. is did was for the show to. get in the six pm get out six p.

six. they were. trained in school day. to day me the class people in the. days that were against the war. it's tough to think about all of the homes of the state and to know that many may not have only been lost to should never be but there are also do different closures that never should have.

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