[慢速VOA]全世界呼吁增加粮食生产(1) [080618]

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World Gets a Call to Raise Food Production (1/2)

A United Nations conference on rising food prices ended with an agreement to invest more in agriculture.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food production needs to increase fifty percent by two thousand thirty to meet rising demand. The cost, he said, could top fifteen to twenty billion dollars a year over a number of years.

About one hundred eighty countries were represented at the three-day summit meeting last week in Rome. The final declaration called for immediate support for agricultural production, including seeds, fertilizer and other supplies. It also urged countries to reduce agricultural trade barriers.The delegates nearly failed to reach a final agreement. There were objections from Latin America on trade-related issues.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says agriculture is the main support for seventy percent of the world's poor. Yet, the F.A.O. says, aid to agriculture fell almost sixty percent from nineteen eighty-four to two thousand four. In nineteen eighty, seventeen percent of official development assistance went to agriculture. By two thousand six that share was three percent.

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一个关于粮食价格上涨问题的联合国会议结束，达成了对农业增加投资的协议。

联合国秘书长潘基文表示到2030年粮食产品需要增加50%，以满足增长的需求。他说，可能要有好些年每年的成本都高达150亿到200亿元。

大约180个国家的代表参加了上周在罗马为期3天的会议。（会议的）最终宣言呼吁即刻投入对农业生产的资助，包括种子、化肥和其它供应。宣言也敦促各国减少农业交易壁垒。代表们几近不能达成最终协议，（因为）有来自拉丁美洲关于贸易相关事务的异议。

联合国粮农组织表示全世界70%贫穷人口的主要支柱是农业。然而，粮农组织表示说农业援助从1984年到2004年下降了近60%. 在1980年，17%的官方发展援助用到了农业上。到2006年，（援助）份额是3%。