VOA常速英语2014--全球饥饿人口呈现下降趋势（在线收听）

Chronically Hungry Numbers Decline 全球饥饿人口呈现下降趋势

Global hunger continues to decline. About 805-million people are reported to be chronically undernourished. That's down 209-million since the early 1990s.

全球饥饿人口继续呈现下降趋势。有报道称大约有8.05亿人长期营养不良。自二十世纪九十年代初以来这个数字已经减少了2.09亿人。

Three U.N. agencies have released the new hunger report known as SOFI or State of Food Security in the World. It provides the latest information on the number and proportion of chronically undernourished people.

联合国3家机构联合公布了《世界粮食不安全状况》报告。它提供的是长期营养不良人口的数量和比例的最新信息。

Jose Graziano da Silva, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General.“Chronic undernourishment is a technical euphemism for being chronically hungry. This basically refers to inadequate dietary energy-in layman's terms-carbohydrates. The absence of sufficient dietary energy basically deprives people of the ability to work and function and to have decent healthy lives.”

联合国粮食农业组织总干事何塞·加拉西亚诺·达席尔瓦说道。“慢性营养不良是一种专业上讲被长期处于饥饿状态的委婉说法。主要是指膳食能量未达标准—外行人说法就是碳水化合物。缺乏足够的膳食能量基本上会使个体丧失工作能力及身体功能，还有良好健康生活的能力。”

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Of the 805-million listed as chronically undernourished, 791-million are in developing countries.

8.05亿人被列为长期营养不良,其中发展中国家有7.91亿人。

U.N. officials said the declining numbers still fall short of the first Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. It called for reducing by half the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries by 2015.

联合国官员表示尽管数字呈现下降趋势，但仍然远未达到第一个千禧年消除极端贫困和饥饿计划的发展目标。该计划号召截至2015年将发展中国家营养不良的人口比例减少一半。

The SOFI report said the “prevalence of undernourishment has fallen from 23.4 to 15.5-percent for developing countries.”

《世界粮食不安全状况》报告中称“发展中国家人口的营养不良患病率已从23.4降到15.5。”

“We basically have 15 more months to achieve the target. But the actual measurement of this will be completed in about two year's time. The only way we can achieve this target is essentially by stepping up efforts in order to have sufficient acceleration of progress in order to achieve the MDG target.”

“我们基本上还有15个多月时间来实现这一目标。但实际我们考虑将要花大约2年的时间才能达成。唯一方法本质上是通过加大努力加速进程的实现千禧年的目标。”

The FAO chief said progress in reducing hunger has been “very, very uneven in the developing world.”

联合国粮食与农业组织首席执行官表示减少发展中国家的饥饿人口一直进行的非常不顺利。

“Progress has been greatest in Latin America, as well as in Southeast Asia. And unfortunately there has been a regression in West Asia. There has been progress in different parts of the world, but not sufficient to merit achievement of the MDG target.”

“拉丁美洲取得的进展最为明显,还有东南亚地区。然而不幸的是亚洲西部呈现倒退迹象。世界各地都已经有所进展,但还不足以实现千年发展目标。”

Da Silva said there's been a change in the distribution of hungry people.

达席尔瓦表示饥饿人口的分布也发生了变化。

“If you look at the situation today you will find that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about a quarter of the hungry people in the world. And southern Asia accounts for an even higher proportion. The number of people in South Asia, who are hungry, is in excess of half a billion people.”

“如果你注意到今天的局势,你就会发现,撒哈拉以南非洲地区占世界饥饿人口的四分之一。而南亚则占更高比例。南亚地区饿肚子的人数超过5亿人。”

There are four dimensions to food security: availability, adequate supply, people's ability to access sufficient food and stability in food prices, weather patterns and harvests.

食品安全的有四种标准:存在性，足够的供给,人民获得充足食物的能力和稳定的食品价格,天气因素还有作物收成。

The U.N. report said that “sustained political commitment at the highest level-with food security and nutrition as top priorities-is a prerequisite for hunger eradication.” It called for an integrated approach that includes public and private investments to boost agriculture productivity-better access to technology and markets-and social protections for the most vulnerable, especially by building resilience to conflict and natural disasters.

联合国的这份报告显示“政治所做出不间断的食品安全和营养为第一要务的最高承诺是消除饥饿的先决条件。它提倡的是一种综合方法,包括提高农业生产率的公共和私人投资,更好地获取技术和市场和社会，保护最弱势群体,特别是通过建立弹性抵御冲突和自然灾害。

The State of Food Security in the World report is a joint effort by the FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Program. It's been released ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition to be held in Rome this November.

《世界粮食不安全状况》报告是由联合国粮食与农业组织,国际农业发展基金会及世界粮食计划署共同努力的结果。在它公布之后,第2次国际营养会议将于今年11月在罗马召开。