Global Food Crisis: Prices Soar and Hunger Persists
- The global food system is facing a crisis with soaring prices and increasing hunger.
- Food prices are now higher in real terms than at any time since 1984.
- High prices are adding millions to the number of people going to bed hungry each night.
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Around the world, the food system is in crisis. Prices have rocketed; they are now higher in real terms than at any time since 1984. They could rise further still if drought lays waste to China’s wheat harvest, as is feared. Food has played some role (how large is hard to tell) in the uprisings in the Middle East. High prices are adding millions to the number who go to bed hungry each night. This is the second price spike in less than four years. Companies are sounding the alarm and the G20 grouping of the world’s largest economies has put “food security” top of its 2011 to-do list. どなたかお願いしますm(__)m
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世界中で、食物制度は、危機にあります。 価格は急騰しました; 価格は、現在、1984年以降のどの時期よりも実質的に高くなっています。 恐れられているように、かんばつが中国の小麦収穫に被害を与えるならば、価格はさらにまだ上昇する可能性があります。 食物は、中東の暴動でも（どれほどの大きさかは言いにくいですが）いくらかの役割を演じました。 高値は、毎晩、空腹のまま寝る人の数に、さらに数百万人を加えています。 これは、4年足らずの間で2度目の価格の急上昇です。 企業は、警告を出しています、そして、世界の経済大国のG20諸国は、その2011年のしなければならないことのリストの第1に「食糧安全保障」を置きました。
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世界中で食料網が危機に陥っている。価格は高騰し、1984年当事より実質的値上がりしている。 懸念されるように、中国の小麦生産が旱魃によって被害を被れば、 食料価格はまた更に高騰するであろう。 食料は中東における暴動においてある役割を担っている（甚大さの程度は不明）。 価格の高騰によって、毎晩空腹のまま床に就かなければならない人々は増加の一途を辿っている。 これはこの4年間で少なくとも2度目の価格急上昇である。 食品会社は警告を発し、世界の経済大国の組織であるG20は、2011年の実行リストのトップに “食糧安全”を掲げている。
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This attention is welcome. But today’s spike is only part of a broader set of worries. As countries focus on food, they need to distinguish between three classes of problem: structural, temporary and irrelevant. Unfortunately, policymakers have so far paid too much attention to the last of these and not enough to the first. The main reasons for high prices are temporary: drought in Russia and Argentina; floods in Canada and Pakistan; export bans by countries determined to maintain their own supplies, whatever the cost to others; panic buying by importers spooked into restocking their grain reserves. Influences outside agriculture make matters worse: a weaker dollar makes restocking cheaper in local currencies; and dearer oil pushes up the cost of inputs (it takes vast amounts of energy to make nitrogen fertiliser, so fertiliser prices track oil prices). どなたかお願いします
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At the moment big structural shifts, such as the growth of China and India, are influencing prices less than one might think. The two Asian giants are demanding more food (and more types of food), but so far their own farmers have largely satisfied that, so they have not needed to trade much (though that would change dramatically if China were to import wheat this year). どなたかお願いしますm(__)m
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下記の文章の構造がわからないので、教えてただけませんか。 Today's high prices come less than three years after the index hit its previous peak in 2008. 以下のように訳してみました。 「今日の（食品の）高い値段は、2008年のピーク時から少なくとも3年は経過している。」 前の文章 ---------------- World food prices remain near record-high levels, according to the latest UN world food price index, and they're expected to climb even higher. The index hit a record in January and has not come down much since. Today's high prices come less than three years after the index hit its previous peak in 2008. 出展：VOAニュース http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Food-Prices-to-Remain-High-Climb-Further--129540983.html
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Over coming decades, though, such fundamental factors will matter more. A good guess is that food production will have to rise by 70% by 2050 to keep pace with population growth, the explosion of developing countries’ megacities and the changes in diet that wealth and urbanisation bring. Big increases will be harder to achieve than in the past because there is little unfarmed land to bring into production, no more water and, in some places, little to be gained by heaping on more fertiliser. Climate change may well exacerbate these problems. For the first time since the 1960s the yields of the world’s most important crops, wheat and rice, are rising more slowly than the global population. The world cannot feed today’s 7 billion people properly. How on earth can it feed the expected 9 billion in 2050? どなたかお願いしますm(__)m
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