are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought needed flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems rarely have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically slim but that's just my opinion.

in july two thousand and eleven the horn of africa was struck by a wave of famine and. again our screens were flooded with images of a may see that africans. over

thirteen million people in somalia kenya ethiopia eritrea and djibouti are once again threatened by famine. the u.n. approaches the international community for immediate food aid.

you know the only thing you notice are children from the most horrific that we've seen over the years that. we grew up learning about africa's hunger problems. that the african people always suffer from hunger and the so-called developed world always sends food.

is there perhaps something wrong with the food aid mechanism. if you're looking at all this money that has been pumped in the fifty's and you're still starving. then it means that something's not right incomes or the interest of those will put you to be assisted in kenya or any other african country to improve their food security part of the hate between movie people. and you can see it even to the many ways because it becomes almost like. a business is. to do what. it given once you put together speaking we're looking at a very wealthy continent which has been now sustained into public teat just before the aid in the street and that's why we need to put two and.

these approach both language aid as i would or you know changing the predicament. the afghan people. yeah. perhaps. northern kenya was one of the regions affected during this recent famine

wave. the land is arid and barren. that was. how i never. am carried here that was written i am the turkana are this region's inhabitants one of kenya's most traditional tribes that were never. forgotten my. dad did that with. their nomadic pastoralists for centuries they have learnt to survive on this harsh land depending on the rain periods. i am. right never mind that yet. i. but in recent years the ongoing droughts threaten their very

existence. i give that yet we. are in northern kenya and we had a year with basically no rain at all to qana region as seen. successive droughts of the past few years and what we're seeing is the stress of getting more and more frequent and the rain is becoming less less common. the travelers left many of the enemy was very very weak so people didn't have that didn't have the usual income. manu titian level is really short term. not what the global acute malnutrition bricked is fifteen percent in some areas of true country it was up to thirty seven percent that is more than double.

the. yard work i had to go to. i mean to go to not five and they all died. even then we couldn't eat them. your little boy in my small field was of no help. the seeds died before they could sprout. a year young it was a bad year without trained we couldn't plant anything. there was great hunger. even the wild fruit became rare. rule when my sister died last year during the long drought that she was old

and as there was no food. she died and i came to take care of her children. there was no food or water because it was too dry and a lot of the. animal immediately say. that you probably know how bad it was last year on the way most animals died. you get this is a man's tomb and the other two are women. they died of hunger. there was no food and the government didn't help.

if hope would come sooner with these people have been saved a year they are all the guests they would be alive and these tombs wouldn't exist you've gone. up she was complaining that she was hungry and thirsty all about arguably. all of the above with it she couldn't sustain herself. not but everybody knows we need food and water to live. it with it in. how long after her death did the food arrive. after five months.

it is chilling to say the least to hear that the two thousand and one drought had been predicted and that lives could have been saved if the system functioned differently drug does not happen just like switching on and off. drugs is something that comes with being a period of time. after ethiopia's famine in one thousand nine hundred fourteen one thousand nine hundred five which left one million victims the us created a forecast system for dangerous droughts in order to avoid similar tragedies in the

future. in two thousand and ten this system had already warned of things to come. yeah we saw it coming and we've been warning for months before you know people were paying attention that's sometimes to a problem you know the problem often with the world attention is that sometimes. people only play it pay attention if you see the dying children. but i will warning systems nowadays our knowledge is so sophisticated we know months in advance we've been warning about this since the four before the crisis happened because we could

see that the rains weren't good enough. but people were left to starve. they had to die before the international community was mobilized. could be here arguing their city countries set up a motive so brads of islam that ultimately lead to that. i can say that there's a cunt to push through because i don't think that to use numbers among the people in the country. right on the street. first street. and i would think the church.

on our reporters twitter. and instagram. would be in the know. on.

the problem is that it's government space national and international journalists and also the bush monitoring committee. during its always acts as quickly as they can. and it takes unfortunately it takes you know those pitches on t.v. screens to really mobilize public opinion and get governments and politicians interested in the crisis. when it becomes of more interest to the international media then you tend to get a very strong public response which is extremely helpful which pushes the politicians into action because when the public has about it then the politicians know they need to to respond because. their their public expects them to do

something. unfortunately you know action could have been taken at the start of two thousand and eleven or earlier in the year. vick should really have stopped it becoming such a big crisis but it's unfortunately. far too often the action isn't taken until it's too late. and so people already suffering. and it's not the first time that the turkana people receive help. international organizations and then goes have been visiting their area for the last fifteen

years. and they always welcome them with joyous songs am. every. good. about my little no no no no your mother let me i'm not your mother no you're not i can come again i could tell they provide them with food that accident the children and check them for signs of malnutrition.

on the way that you come from i think from the tell of. nothing i don't how far is not tell of. the many hours away which means that i left for the sunrise. for decades the turkana have been living in a constant state of hunger. they belong to one billion people around the world who have no access to their daily nourishment while at the same time more food than ever is being produced on the planet. contrary to crisis periods this chronic hunger phenomenon rarely reaches the evening news. never the less it is deadly.

it kills over fifteen million people yearly three times more than those killed during the gear of the second world war. approximately six and a half million of them are children eighteen thousand die every day. so to fight hunger the international community decided to distribute food to those in need. however since its birth in one nine hundred fifty four and until today food aid has never been a matter of sheer humanitarianism it's been a matter of economic and political correlations with the us playing the leading

role. the simple reason everyone focuses on u.s. food aid policy is us accounts for more than half of all the world's food aid so as goes the united states so goes the global food aid regime you know the united states is providing fifty to sixty percent of the world's food aid any given year all of europe combined only provide fifteen to twenty percent of. the. we have given much to the impoverished peoples of europe. but as a counter measure against the attempt by the soviet union come you know if you're up the american people sharpen the strategy for cooperating with the non communist countries in a comprehensive bipartisan european recovery program. after the success of the

marshall plan which delivered tons of food to western europe. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four president eisenhower signed the famous public law for eighty. years. the new laws the purpose was to distribute the u.s. agricultural surpluses serving at the same time as a tool for economic and foreign policy which would help promote the country's interests. according to the president's own words the new law lays the basis for expanding our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples of other lands. oh it's a great goal and not the deleterious our football. if you're going to break the bonds of their pedigree we play our best effort to help them help them.

all whatever period is required not because i mean it may be doing it not because we think they're both but we did it right in one thousand nine hundred eighty one president kennedy acknowledged public love for eighty as being a fundamental importance to the united states and renamed it food for peace. so the primary objective of food aid policy was surplus disposal but it had a secondary objectives the hope that it would also build future export markets for u.s. agricultural commodities and that it could achieve humanitarian objectives associated with reducing hunger and under-nutrition and that it could perhaps with some our wise abroad. with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer

civilian foreign aid. is. the u.s. government for spreading beyond many foreign policy through. and . systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars. during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall food aid was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror.

if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a bit of subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you do even if you've seen even more so because the opinion elephants to their training even cheap and since they use food is that if you don't train much on such a dance like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next day and vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up you see what i mean. from very early on africa became the focus of attention as the u.s. and soviet union were trying to gain zones of influence countries like somalia

ethiopia and kenya received help. there's a little peace is good as it would be easy to prove to them or the police doesn't mean that the united states is doing business to actually be providing you know this in time. there's no politics behind going in there we're trying to do things in a way that is most effective way to save lives so i don't think that criticism really holds true. i'm honored to work for this organization i think we do fabulous were partners in the united nations and it's really inspiring.

when the bug arrives with a number complied going need from the american people. if they're the first thing is this the appreciation of the american people because if somebody helps you then you have to appreciate that. for a country that assists your people in this tough in the approach you to bring in the investments. you see the be very much willing to tell them good them come and if you're not just doing the the funding been in the hole in last year. the chinese have to study what the western countries were doing the chinese also for the first time brought their food aid complete with trucks there was a must of much is that wait a minute this food aid thing is not just the tusk another soaked up torch in terms of winning all over the country to dominate over to push their value cycles the

globe. apart from helping foreign policy food aid also had other benefits and help with internal affairs namely the large american agribusiness and shipping companies. but there are other important beneficiaries lurking in the shadows one are agribusinesses and i emphasize agribusinesses rather than for. farmers because very little food aid is sold by farmers directly that sold by large firms the great hidden beneficiary for u.s. food aid and this is distinct from any other food aid program in the world are the shippers.

i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i mean my dear. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with two of my friends will be around to the tundra. the tundra is just miskito the crack i don't know how people can live there to get it there no t.v.'s in the tenth how could i send my child to boarding school i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things they don't get that in school. safe.

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