now already over the last few days as is clearly strengthening our work and we just want to acknowledge that community alliance for global justice is a really proud member of the u s food sovereignty alliance which is a fairly new alliance that many of the organizations here tonight are members of and we're just proud to be part of a food sovereignty movement both throughout the u s throughout the northwest and of course internationally one of the filiation that we're most proud of is because we're members of the national family farm coalition who's represented here tonight we're also affiliated with sina the international movement of peasants small heart of small holder farmers farm workers who introduced the idea of food sovereignty to the world so it was also a great pleasure and honor to introduce elizabeth from seem so off and love your compass you know africa and zimbabwe elizabeth is the current general coordinator of love y international coordinating committee she's a founding member of zimbabwe's smallholder organic farmers forum some saw and eastern southern smallholders farmers forum organizations which promote sustainable farming she chairs him so often is the former chair poor person of the south in eighty's and ninety's she worked for as truck and later became the chairperson she's an organic farmer herself and activists and she works tirelessly for the betterment of smallholder farmers throughout africa ok good evening ladies and gentlemen maybe before i even go further with my brief speech i just want to but these corporations are coming to trying to influence our african governments are going to fight together we have big enough we're human enough we know what we want the struggle thank you community organization and education from south africa friends of the earth africa from nigeria so we'd like to invite each of you if you'd like to comment for two or three minutes on what you've heard so far on the questions that were presented and then we will go to a question and answer period and thank you so it is a very critical thing to us and why i put the question who this is been if it is if you look at for example this project of it i mean it by now that gets is finding  good evening everybody it's an honor to be here i come from south africa and i think it would be responsible not to raise the issue of the land question that our country is facing in that twenty years in a of an organization advocates with others for and so that struggle continues around access to land and then link to my sister elizabeth around just getting the message across that many farmers and social movements and food moments are fighting back so there is not a passive acceptance of the status quo there is resistance a strong africa but also in the rest of the continent so i would ask you all to continue your fight together with such an amazing organization for the struggle for social justice revolution and about agra when we look at agra and the green revolution i think for us as africans we see  now the form another phase of colonialism another wave that's coming to take over the last really african our food our land and our sovereign so we saying that africa is fit itself for a long time africa will continue to feed itself what we need is not charity and more investments of the kind that's been imposed on us we need we need learning together from you from the peasant farmers from the food movement all these small markets that exist here from the community to community programs that's what we need people to people thought not corporate takeover so we say no good evening ladies and gentleman  wanted and the way we like it should not be like this be a case where there was fine and the people said give us money letters buy food from the south where there is food and they said no you must take food from the states so that is not the reason i'm starting there is because i spent some good years in kakamega very close to little lake when she was at the prime age of forty five and she stayed there for five ye the whole what away and now the people that used to it or the fish for free don't find any anymore i also met another very good friend of mine this night his name expose to all the time keep the ball gates's of this world in the public domain that is now task as citizens with he and the good things as well as the bad things i think it's important that we put this in the public domain and that we engage with it all the time as citizens and there to we not think that they must that they too must be kept under wraps we must force on these corporations and the people like gates a transparency we must make them accountable to play that role why easy to their theory such enormous wealth and such enormous poverty and inequality in equity so i think that than important thing and i think public health education and now food these are the most critical issues things to human beings and we must ask why has he chosen these and why the interventions that he has so i think they're they're an important perhaps task for all of us it's not only to some but it's everybody's talk i will come back have been defeated by the capitalist tendencies that have you know been thrown full swing into african countries so we have young people who are finishing universities and everything is in their market they can't get employment and they can't buy and they can't buy food they can't get housing because this whole capitalist system has taken over everything so it is not we have too many children and issues around carrying capacity and then i think that we need to turn the question around and say how do we address the systemic issues that contribution to inequality there to militate against people's ability to access adequate good quality culturally appropriate food