please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing story for you. then try. to find out more visit. 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. to g.a.o. where mr alito 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

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 in u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayer's 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. to the was yet here you haven't heard.

that. i don't like depending on others with a lot. of that much and all of them other than i but our land doesn't produce anything and to prise us a soda. out of what did a month ago was so some wheat but it was aired in the sun on. the net i missed. that one and we appreciate that as a countries take care of us. the government of kenya. knows that drought causes problems but it ignores us. we could sustain ourselves and 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. it's a myth. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked yet. 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 the mother when we proposed to our government to construct good water supply lines for our crops it's like talking to defeat is if 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. would be in. continuous famine relief because that is literally true development going on because all buckwild we are bad we have. to know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to the night so it is a mentor chided for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop because the module of my generation the people and the 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.

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 that tonsil to send it to becomes easier for you to skim off 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 in putting food. at the expense of the cause 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 goodies that caused 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 good if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that's is the way in the one thousand sixty's and nine 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 or

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 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. after structural that just meant the subsidies that you are buying new to fertilize 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 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 are a net food imported country. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to pay 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 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 this 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 lizzie

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 word 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 illegal issue it's free market. we have somebody many people can't afford to be really food because of the bad news because moved by everything to

each. war. for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the pupils in canberra schools. has this school three hundred children receive aid. some of these children sometimes you see only mean if they did that they get so they going to school move so they have flu to meet and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i only skimmed the maybe i could just roll up my staff. and maybe help my phone to the. good things that share is me is if my mom moved dad would

come at school kids would do over to do's to leave hungry but what. this would lead to e.t.s. to feel much more that would eat the difference in being so moral. codes assume. you maybe have been given to foods in that way i think i'd just say i just got to say on that but i won't let someone know that i think the oh it's existing almost made sense i want to shout out how about just keeping him down to the tube and then be made to see that you fancy stuff love love and she is being put out as a chance to show it's a good school. but it. was.

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ah. ah. east's many things is a life support. it's digit issue. it is an economic is evil 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 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. our beloved in africa is cultivated and and that tells you that only 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 this lot to for us. we are not investing in farming just popped over strategic 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 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. feel like busing to move dominion came here through the church. because it couldn't get in contact with us it used the priests. you need 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 they 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 tamils coming. this thing

timed 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 that the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one drive. and so they got completely ruined world and.

the house started leaning. and so we demolished and rebuilt this and you. all 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 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 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 down there 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 and even on your arms under the models i was 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. you could face up to twenty five of ways in one day. i'm back when all is not lost you can hardly get a bag of maize. to mean noon has to get to the days and yet now. more poorer than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before. we need is one to use part of the swarm 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 we have a pot that is flying back. and our government is sitting in the

office as an arrow i think the american people help they do. grants coming from outside the nation all over every time the need. that 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. invest in the new sources. it is a productive assets and therefore we have to run promptly with it. in the next three years if the trend continues i think they can then community with

the. appearance from. before depending on. 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 projects. 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 in the street appear to be fair to chile the horn of africa receives more rain than soda rabia than even

a drop but you know tides the saudis their own money is pleading for food aid. to the problem really about funding now for ther is no it's a boat drop. we have money politics. so the tools 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 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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