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 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 use 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 i mean yes. yes the right way i did however. was. that i am a god who are very happy that 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 on the but our land doesn't produce any saying and deprives us of sued well when we did a month ago was so did some wheat but it was aired in the sun on holland i mean i missed and the problem. was i met alan and we appreciate that other countries take care of us that are going to go 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 with people who like to work. it's a myth. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked.

because of the world 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 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'll be right if we have something to to you know eighty ninety percent of the people not going out to the donate so it's a mental challenge for the country. we hope in the new constitution would up with will develop and those who put them up short of my generation people and those kind of communities have the country. it is only as if 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 the must be to becomes difficult for every request wants to skim 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 it to becomes easier for you to skim off 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 course 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 goodies 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 is why in the one thousand 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.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. asked us to actually that just meant the subsidies that were going into fertilizer into seeds and the entire gutteral extension services where you moved and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people did not have money to pay the never consulted extension or access so the food production just slumped and as we're talking now it is

a basket case we need food importing countries. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to a.b.a. 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 with the expenses. cheery it is better because someone may pity and help here. 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 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 to go to you have to be fully electricity you 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 somebody really people can't afford to be really food because the body. moved everything to each. ward.

for decades now the world food program organisation has been providing food to the pupils in canberra schools. i have to 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 baffling to me and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. only as jim good to maybe i could just grow up faster. and maybe help my funding. the things that interest me is if my mom moved dad will come at school with food or to do the street hungry but with. the flip that each year to fill much more than who each other let them to bring so

much good seeds holds a certain manage. it maybe i've been given some fluids in that i'm. just saying i just got to hang on the but i won't let someone know that i'm on a lot so i just you know mostly with my hands i don't need to shout out how about just keeping. them to the t.v. and then they may just see that your fancy stuff love love us and she is being for us trying to show us. who. live here.

i would rather i 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 our t.v. question more. well for the. science technology innovation called the least i'm elements from around rush hour we've got the future issues covered. me it is easy to do. if he has. to.

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it is so many things it's so i like the support. it. is you. it is an economic is evil is a bogus rule of development it is so many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as known as you not i was sober and in the means and the infrastructure of producing and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and cannot claim to be independent sixty percent of. utter bollocks in africa is a country rich. and and that tells you that all we need is to then invest in this pumps but again because of the dependency culture what we are seeing 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 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 that they thought should be put towards helping in food security in africa so he came here in the two thousand and three and in east this farm for twenty five vs and number ten to five yes 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. and i. think you are bussing to 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 it would 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 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 the way to the water came during the day and got inside our home. the corn's one run. and so they got completely ruined in the day. the house started leaning. and so we demolished and rebuilt us and you. know.

when i walked my whole body was underwater i know only this spot stayed above the water level. the animals were 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. you can just create a down which is killing people killing animals taking everything from people and you're telling us that investor is very visible who. we are not the course but what up and 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 to eat 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 that evil 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 a lot of 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 significance here some yams roots and so many things and even on the arms and the metals 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.

blow through all the food no you can't have the money to pay school fees for that you did because of these. today. you. know. that time was a rich man and that's why i left. looking for jobs and that will be to come here and create an employment for myself and have a decent life like. after twenty five bucks of ways and one day. i'm back when all is not lost we can hardly get a bag of maize so on demand noone has to go to the back bays and yet no. more poor than we used to be because what we're experiencing now. as never before.

we need is 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 acres why do we have need these always complaining about the potion that was given to they invest us yes why don't they also go on a drain of the other part that is lying bad. government is sitting in the offices and it will be as if the american people help they do. 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 in colonial days.

i think it's often on. you know we have to. just make us you know after the you know those but them all today in this house in the new sources so it's this ministry. is it's a productive assets 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 with. peers from. before depending on. nationals is non-treated 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 projects. the dam may hold some of the rain water and help the turkana gather water for the

next drought. when our screens are again flooded by images of starting off or 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 see drove 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 no it's about drugs it's about how we have money. so the troops to help with the african pulse. we need nor stop i guess delivering

a few bugs of grain to the people we see starving we need to start eating tell getting the global food system and how it's been truly makes individual africans in the rural villages end up having no food at all.

i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. oh. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with to my friends will be around to the tundra. the tundra is just in the ghettos of practically i don't know how people can live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tenth how can i send my child to boarding school that i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter

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