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Directly to helping small farmers grow more of their own food and you want to see more aid used to support the anti-corruption efforts. john: but what are the odds that that will happen? that the aids support the corrupt dictators as much as half the food aid center at the molly is diverted to corrupt ccntractors, is like militants, local un staff. >> somalia is a difficult environment. john: i will go on. zimbabwean authorities confiscated truck filled with american food aid for school kids and handed it out to supporters of president robert mcgowan boy and a political rally. >> this is one o...

It is the reality that we need government in there, too. >> food starches a couple billionaires could fund the whole food stamp program by itself. a private charity would be better at saying who needs the food health and who is scamming the system. >> if you know a billionaire who would want to pay the entire system we would welcome about a. that. >> they don't step in because the government is there. they say government does that. >> i think the reality is in real life all of these private efforts are really important. we are generous people. we give a lot of money. when the chips are down th...

The world is warren buffet. is he cheap? he's one of many billionaires who until recently, gave very little to charity. he used his money to try to make more money. he said he'd give it away when he died. his fellow billionaire, ted turner, told me, buffet was being cheap! >> he should give some away now. >> turner had just made a big splash by giving a billion dollars to the u.n. and now he said he wanted to shame other rich people into giving more. >> what he said is patently stupid. >> that was businessman t.j. rogers' answer to turner's bragging about his u.n. gift. >> what he should do is...

Farmers grow more of their own food. and we want to see more aid used to support anticorruption efforts and good governance efforts in a lot of these countries. >> what are the odds that that will happen, that the aid supports the corrupt dictators? the "new york times" says as much as half the food aid sent to somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, islamic militants and local u.n. staff. >> well, somalia is a really difficult environment. >> zimbabwe, handed out food aid to supporters of their leader at a political rally. >> again, when you have bags of food,. >> but by calling for more ...

>> i understand that. you do some great work. but why do you call for it at all? >> there is a lot of misconceptions about u.s. aid. one of the biggest misconceptions is that most u.s. assistance actually goes to government. in fact, that's not true. most u.s. assistance goes to u.s.-based charities, ngo's and contractors. >> and the u.n., which sometimes -- >> there is a portion that goes to the u.n. we're very clear that the u.n. is not the solution to poverty. just as aid is not the solution to poverty. people are the solution to poverty. >> let's hear from an actual african entrepreneur. h...