粮食问题英语作文
Mot American take food for granted. Even the pooret fifth of houehold in the United State pend only 16 percent of their budget on food. In many other countrie, it i le of a given. Nigerian familie pend 73 percent of their budget to eat, Vietnamee 65 percent, Indoneian half. They are in trouble.
Lat year, the food import bill of developing countrie roe by 25 percent a food price roe to level not een in a generation. Corn doubled in price over the lat two year. Wheat reached it highet price in 28 year. The increae are already parking unret from Haiti to Egypt. Many countrie have impoed price control on food or taxe on agricultural export.
Lat week, the preident of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, warned that 33 nation are at rik of ocial unret becaue of the riing price of food. “For countrie where food comprie from half to three-quarter of conumption, there i no margin for urvival,” he aid.
Price are unlikely to drop oon. The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization ay world cereal tock thi year will be the lowet ince 1982.
The United State and other developed countrie need to tep up to the plate. The rie in food price i partly becaue of uncontrollable force — including riing energy cot and the growth of the middle cla in China and India. Thi ha increaed demand for animal protein, which require large amount of grain.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]
But the rich world i exacerbating thee effect by upporting the production of biofuel. The International Monetary Fund etimate that corn ethanol production in the United State accounted for at leat half the rie in world corn demand in each of the pat three year. Thi elevated corn price. Feed price roe. So did price of other crop — mainly oybean — a farmer witched their field to corn, according to the Agriculture Department.
Wahington provide a ubidy of 51 cent a gallon to ethanol blender and lap a tariff of 54 cent a gallon on import. In the European Union, mot countrie exempt biofuel from ome ga taxe and lap an average tariff equal to more than 70 cent a gallon of imported ethanol. There are everal reaon to put an end to thee intervention. At bet, corn ethanol deliver only a mall reduction in greenhoue gae compared with gaoline. And it could make thing far wore if it lead to more farming in foret and graland. Riing food price provide an urgent argument to nix ethanol’ upport.Over the long term, agricultural productivity mut increae in the developing world.
Mr. Zoellick uggeted rich countrie could help finance a “green revolution” to increae farm productivity and raie crop yield in Africa. But the rie in food price call for developed nation to provide more immediate aitance. Lat month, the World Food Program aid riing grain cot blew a hole of more than $500 million in it budget for helping million of victim of hunger around the world.Indutrial nation are not generou, unfortunately. Overea aid by rich countrie fell 8.4 percent lat year from 2006. Developed nation would have to increae their aid budget by 35 percent over the next three year jut to meet the commitment they made in 2005.
They mut not let thi target lip. Continued growth of the middle cla in China and India, the puh for renewable fuel and anticipated damage to agricultural production caued by global warming mean that food price are likely to tay high. Million of people, mainly in developing countrie, could need aid to avoid malnutrition. Rich countrie’ energy policie helped create the problem. Now thoe countrie hould help olve it.