the turkana people receive help. international organizations and then she goes have been visiting their area for the last fifteen years. and they always welcome them with joyous songs am. i am. ever. did. not violate no no no no. no no no no not your mother no no no no. i don't know they provide them with food that accident the children and check them for signs of malnutrition.

on the way that you come from to from the tell of. how far is motel of. many hours away which means that it was left for the sunrise. for decades to 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. 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. 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. 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 boat and the deleterious our football. team are going to break

the bonds of their very we play our best effort to help them help them. all whatever period is required not because i mean if they've been doing it not because we think they're both but we did 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 a 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 allies 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 many foreign policy through human dignity 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 so today it 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 very subtle way of pushing a national agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even more so because the training elephants to their training even cheap and since they use food is that if you don't train much upon such a dance like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next time vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up 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 lot of pieces with this would be easy to prove to them or the police doesn't mean that the united states is doing business to actually providing you know the same 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 workers who are partners in the united nations and it's really inspiring. when the bug arrives with an american plug on needs 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 the. 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 the funding been in the hole in last year. this child needs to study what their wisdom comes with the chinese also for the first time brought their food aid complete with trucks there was almost as much as 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 there to push their value such across 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

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