vermont 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 in 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 i did however. was. that i was. very happy i was.

like you i don't like depending on others with the work. a lot 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 some. of what did a month ago was so some wheat but it withered in the sun. the whole long time yes i missed him but we're. not alone and we appreciate that other countries take care of us. and 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 us fields. but.

it was one we have 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 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 all breath we have some deep to to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to be that night so it is the men just headed for the country. we hope in the new constitution would up with will develop and those who come up short of my generation people and those kind of communities in 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 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 it tonnes of to 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 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 why in the one thousand and sixty is 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 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 mean to fertilize the seeds and the entire a good 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 case 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 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. expense says. here it is better because

someone may pity and help here. without a welfare system the citizens of kibera must pay for everything even public toilets since houses don't have these luxuries. the average computer 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 fully 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 legal issue it's free market. we have somebody really people can't afford to be really food because the bad if you. buy everything to each.

wall. for decades now the world food programme organisation 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 tell me i mean addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. god knows jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. to do the chair is me is is my mum no dad leukoma to school kids would do over to do steve hungry but.

the flip that each year to grow much more than the good eats out of the dips and bring so much of it was needs holds assume. you maybe have to move to foods in that i'm going to just say i just saved that today i know but i won't let someone know that i'm on a lot so i just am almost made sense and they teach and i just keep being here so that too and then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love and she's being full of us trying to show us a good rule of. law a little bit. i.

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food is so many think. it's just a life support. it. is you. it is an economic is evil is development it is so many things and therefore as gnome as you would 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. and and that tells you that only 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 to this law too for us. we are not investing in farming us part of us to take 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 and 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 the least this farm four hundred five vs and number twenty five vs 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. in my. view like bussing to new 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 it would 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 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 loving rice crops. but as the inhabitants claim this intervention caused floods. much he hates the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they got completely ruined world and then. 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. 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 killing everything from people and. it is very visible who. we are not the course but what happens here 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're not doing we're not even using we're not even in growing rice so there's a season when people give 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 inside 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 cans here some yams groups under so many things going on ian's under the models i was selling those and maybe if not very badly i was an almost a getting one thousand

a day. to manage my family and now i've got nothing. clothes who 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 come sunday. does while 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 poor than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. is never they have to

. give the communities one to use part of 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 mean it is always complaining about the person that was given to the investor. yesterday why don't they also go on the drain of the other part that is lying back. with our government is sitting in the office as an aerobic as in the american people help 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 live. just like us you know after the minerals. invest in the new sources so excess ministry's. is productive and therefore we have to run proudly 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. national 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. with 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 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 not a boat dropped its about how we have money.

so the troops to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people he sees telling we need just typed in total 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.

real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily

reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this boils. down load the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere.

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