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[Homework]SENEWS-2010-03-23
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This is the VOA special english agriculture report.
Suppose you eat rice everyday, but one day you go to the store and discover that the price is more than you can pay, that happen to millions of people 2 years ago at the height of the world food crisis. Between april of 2007 and march of 2008, the price of rice doubled in many places. Economists blame the crisis on different causes including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food crop lands for biofuel production. High food prices push more people in developing countries into poverty and hunger. Some researchers say people living in cities in west africa may have suffered most of all. Geographers from 3 american colleges did the study that were appear in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. Where are mostly M*** college of Minisuda led the study. The team looked at 30 years’ world information on food security and agricultural policy in Gambia, ivory coast and mori. Most of the research settled down rice, an important crop in those 3 west african countries. The reserachers say that Gambia and ivory coast suffered more during food crisis than that Mori did. They say this was because people in Gambia and ivory coast have come to depend on imported rice. Local rice production fail after the countries reduced farm supports and import taxes on the 3 market reforms, that meant rice farmers were not only earning less but facing greater competition from imports, then when the food prices hit the cost of farming rice shut off. The researchers say that Mori suffered less because it depended less on imported rice in part because of geography. Mori is not a coastful country with ports like ivory coast and Gambia. Lauran Spark from Orangam state university says after gainning independence, african countries try to help farmers. Governments provided low cost seeds and fertilizers, they build processing mills and roads to market, and they protected their markets with high terraces on imported food, but by the late 1970s and 1980s, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers, so they changed the policies and tried another way to improve agriculture. Governments send major leaders like world bank and international montary fund turn to free market policies. We will talk more next week about how the researchers link that change to the facts of recent food prices. and that’s the VOA special english agriculture report. Writtern by Joroling Water, i’m steve ember.
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