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 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 those arrived 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 means yes yes it was yesterday i. was. very happy that i was.

like you i don't like depending on others with of work think of a lot i'm not all that much and all of a moment but our land doesn't produce any saying and deprives us of sued. or did a month ago was so some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland i met them yes i missed them but we're. not alone we appreciate that other countries take care of us. and the government of kenya. knows that the 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 our fields.

but. it was one with people who like to work. its limited. 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 mother the mother going out 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 literally true development. because all buckwild we'll be right if we have something to do to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to do that night so it's a mental challenge for the country. we hope in that with a new constitution would up with will develop and those who come up short of my generation people and those kind of communities have a 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 opinion from us producing grain. and

a must it becomes difficult for that once the scheme of 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 same into becomes easier for you to skim off from that the food if it's not about food it will be about import food importation so it 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 police because 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 good 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 nine hundred sixty s. the 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 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 group cattle 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 near talking now it is a basket case we are a net food importing countries. 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 have 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 with the expenses. cheered it is better

because someone may pity and help you. without a welfare system the citizens of kabera must pay for everything even public toilets since houses don't have these luxuries. the average computer is too fluffy to dallas but is a must. and you have to pay for your room you have to buy water you have to pay for the toilet too good too you have to pay for the electricity you have to pay for you . to buy food you have to buy the food this. is no only it's free market because. we have so many people can't afford the daily food because she moved everything to each.

yeah. it was. down to the water. for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the pupils in kabera schools. at this school three hundred children receive aid. some of these children sometimes it's the only meaning of the day that they get so they get a school meal so they have baffled time me and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i'm almost tempted to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my fund. it is their cherries me is if my mom know dad will come at

whole foods would be over to do is to leave hungry with. the food that each year to fill much more than i would eat i would let them to bring some more. homes as soon manage. it maybe i've been prudent. in that i. just say i just say we've got to get on that but i won't let somebody know that i'm on the alerts existing olmos mayfield's i want to shout out how about just keeping him down so that even then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love as in she is being flip as john shows was. live. i.

told her my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say. the security of a car is all you're talking no gonna. do no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you find you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to cost. download the official ati application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite from outside if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch ati anytime anywhere.

food is so many things it's a life support it is a digital issue. it is an economic is eel is a bug development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as known as you not ours sovereignty in the me and the infrastructure 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 you come to britain and and that tells you that all you need is 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 this is not true 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 but they felt 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 vs the renewable. was about what you would like for 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. you did promise 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 lack and we really celebrated at the time tamils coming. he this thing timed out 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'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 he hates the water came during the day and goes inside our home. the corn's one right now. and so they got completely ruined in the day. the house started leaning. and so demolished and rebuilt us 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 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 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 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 cans here

some yams roups under so many things going on ian's 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. to own food no we can't have the money to pay school fees for the children because of these not just you can't plan the clothes you planned here today what has come sunday. that was going to work you know. that time was a rich man and that's why i left the 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 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 the 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 yesterday why don't they also go on a drain of a of a pot that is like bad. government is sitting in the office is 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. what we have

found by as well very very hard working so we are not being taken as human beings in fact i hate to say this but we're still in colonial days. and we have to strive to. make us you know after the. us was in the middle of sources so it's us ministries. and therefore we have to run proud to be 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. 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 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 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 drought but you know touch the saudis their own money is pleading for food aid. to the problem

really about funding now for it is no doubt about drugs it's about how we have money. so the tools to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop just delivering a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving we need to start interrogating 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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