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 p.o.v. 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 thus 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 use 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 the right way i have a good however i. am a god who already have been brought up 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 i but our land doesn't produce any saying and deprives us of soda. did a month ago we sowed some wheat but it withered in the sun the whole long time yes

i missed him but we're. not met alan 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 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.

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 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 going on because all. we'll be right if we have

something to say to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to the night so it's a menace had it for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop and we could come up short of my generation of people and those kind of communities have the country. it is of the us 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 the 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 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 opinions producing more food for themselves. however before nine hundred eighty kenya not only produced but also exported 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 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 is why in the one thousand sixty is the name hundred seventy s. conomos among. 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 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 to actually that just meant the subsidies that were going into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services where you move and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people do not have money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped and as near 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 to 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 a-z. expense says. here 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 you have to pay for school fees you have to buy food you have to buy food with the food yes. there's no only delicious it's free market. we have so maybe many people can't afford the billy food because of the bad because i've moved everything to each. wall. for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the

pupils in canberra schools. as to school three hundred children receive aid. some of these children sometimes you see only mean a few did that they get so they get a school move so they have bad flu to meet and in 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 fund. it is the charities me it is it's my mum moved dad leukoma to school kids who would do over to do steve hungry but. this would go to each year to the much more than who eats i begged him to bring so much. colds assume. you maybe you haven't been to foods in that i. just say i just got to

say on the bags i won't let someone know that i was me or lots of zest you know almost my feelings i don't teach and i just keep going and give them to them then they need to see that you fancy stuff love love and she's being with us john she was a good. god. but it. was .

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picture. choose your language. because we can without any financial presidential someone. was ready to choose the news that concerns you like a. choose the opinions that invigorated a good mind to. choose the stories that in high life choose the access to your office. food is so many things. i like a support. it. is you. it is an economy that is

evil is truly built mint 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 can not claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent of. our blood in africa just come to britain and and that 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 are being silly and listen to slant to for us. we are not investing in farming as part of a strategic security element for the country.

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 dish 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 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 move dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. 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 that was. one. of. the communities agreed the company would take a 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 loving 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 got completely ruined in the day. 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 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 that 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 in ca 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 get me 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 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 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 the money to pay school fees for the children because of these not this you can't plan the course you planned here today

what it comes to and. those who are going to work here 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 like. 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 saw or demand newness to get to the days and yet now. more poorer than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before. communities want to use part of it 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 like bad. government is sitting in the office as an aerobic as in the american people health but they do this to their. grads 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 this still in colonial days. we have to strive. to the

investments in the new sources so it's ministries. and therefore we have to live with it. in the next three years if the trend continues i think they can and community will really. appears for more really food depending on. nationals 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 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 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 see

drove 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 so did 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 is no it's a boat drop. we have money all politics. 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 start getting the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in their

abilities end up having no food at all.

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