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 road appeal and so when the food arrives. the 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 arrive. 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 all right what did i did however. was. that i was yet it was already happening was. that like you i don't like depending on others with the work that well the and i'm not all that much and all of them of them but our land doesn't produce any saying and to prize as a soda. did a month ago was so did some wheat but it was aired in the sun on the how long the mess i missed in the book were.

not met out well and we appreciate that other countries take care of us and i'm going to go to 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 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 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. 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 through that part of the country. to be in. continuous famine relief because that is literally true development going on because all. we'll be right if we have some deep sea to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not knowing how to do that night so it is a mentor challenge for the country. the hoping that with

a new constitution would up with will develop because we've got a multitude of my generous people and those kind of communities have the country. it is only a so 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 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 in tons of the 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 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 export it 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 and the country would stuff and that's why in the one thousand sixty is the name hundred seventy s.

because 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 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 a structure that just meant the subsidies that were going into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services were removed 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 we are 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 do 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 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 lizzie expense says. 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 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. it's free market. we have somebody people can't afford to be the food because the bad if you. buy everything to each. yeah. 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 it's the only mean if they did that they get so

they going to school move so they have bad flu to meet and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i have a list in the maybe i could just grow up fast. and maybe help my funding. to do their share is me is is my mom lodi gluco much school kids would do over to do the steve hungry but with. the flood that each year to fill much room and who eats out the dips and brings so much. hopes assume. you've moved out of the room to foods in that i'm. just so i just got to play on that but i won't let someone know that i was on the world's best and almost

made millions i don't. know how about just keeping. them so that even then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love you she's being full of us a chance to show us a good school. but it. was . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

food is so many things. i lay some books. it is. issue. it is an economic is evil is sub zero drug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you would dependent as no less you do not that was so different in the means and the infrastructure producing 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 contradicted 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've seen is that the political elites have been selling and listen this lot to for us. we are

not investing in farming just 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 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 twenty five yes but he knew it. was too much work 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. forget what bus into new 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 lackey. and we really celebrated at the time tamils coming here this thing timed out to be something that is. one. of. the communities agreed the company would take the swamp and transform it into a fertile field while simultaneously undertaking projects for the public's benefit . drainage works began in 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 the home. the corn's one right now. and so they've got completely ruined 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 despite 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 killing. people and. it has been 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 said 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 are things . i was cultivating in favor here i was getting my vegetables from here i was getting my income in fact i was a cultivating underselling yeah i had some sugar canes 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 bad i was almost 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 learn the cause you've learned here today whatever comes and. the world 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 an employment for myself and have a decent life like. you could fetch 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 get back bays and yet now. more poor than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before.

give the community is one to use part of it this one this one is about six hundred thousand make us it does not belong to us we only have seventeen thousand take us why do we have mean it is always complaining about the person that was given to they invest us yes why don't they also go on a drain of a pot that is like bad. government is sitting in the office is an aerobic as in the american people help. for grants coming from outside the nation all over every time the need. what 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 leave the. minerals. in the middle of sources so it's us ministers. 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 really for depending on. nationals 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 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

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 is seed drought that's 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 managed all politics. so the tools to help with the effort compulsion. we need nor stop i guess delivering

a few bugs of graeme to the people we see starving we need to start getting the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans and their over the ages end up having no food at all.

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