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. 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. 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 there are maining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. that mean yes. yes the right way i have waited i have yet i.

was. going to happen was. that 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 anything and deprives us of soda. did a month ago was so to some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland and i met them yes i missed him but we're. not met out on one and we appreciate that other countries take care of us that are going to go 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 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. yeah . 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 true that part of the country. has been on continuous famine relief because that is a bitter bitter development. because all. we are bad we have something to do to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to be that night so it is a major challenge for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop within 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. 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 my stuff but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of the same it to becomes easier for you to skim over from that the food if it's not about food aid 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 kenyans 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 good if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next and the country would stuff and that is why in the one thousand cities the name 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 disappeared lustration know 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 were going me into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services were removed and this extension 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 because 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 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 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 with the expenses. cheer it is better because someone may pity and help peers. 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 the most probable 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 legal issue it's free market. we have some really really people can't

afford to be really food because the. big government buy everything to each. war. 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 meaning of the day that they get so they can a school move so they have bad flu to me and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i only skimmed the maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help

my funding. but it is the terrorists me is is my mom no dad would come at school kids would be over to do the street hungry but with. the slip that each year to the much more that would eat only difference and bring so much. holds assume much. if maybe i've been too prudent in that i'm. just sorry i just take that away on the but i won't let someone know that i'm on the other worlds existing almost my plans and go to china how about just keeping. them to the t.v. and then they may just see that up fancy stuff love love as she is being for us trying to show us the latest rule. here.

i would rather asked questions for people in positions of power. stead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. look right from the scene. first straight. and i would think that you're.

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my. food is so many things it's just a lie some pot it is us that did it is you. 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 meetings and the infrastructure brewed using and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent

sixty percent of. our blood in africa is a country vegetable 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 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 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 the least this farm for twenty five vs and number twenty five vs 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.

feel like buses 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 alas and we really celebrated at the time tamils coming. this thing timed out to be something that is. 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 the way to the water came during the day and got inside our 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 us and you.

all well 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 killing everything from people and. it has been

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 really we're not even using we're not even 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 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 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. looking for jobs in a row be to come here and create an employment for myself and have a decent life. 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 so on demand noone has 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. the communities want 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 communities always complaining about the potion 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 health but they do this to their.

grants coming from outside the nation all over every time they need food. but we have found my 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. so it's us ministries. 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 relief or 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 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 see 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 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 not about drugs it's about how we have money. so to to help with the effort compulsion. we need nor stop i guess 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 been truly makes individual africans in the rural villages end up having no food at all.

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