民以食为天 价以涨为主
食物价格在近几年的上涨成为非洲大问题。Hints：
Mount Kilimanjaro
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答疑：liuczhihttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201203/201203250415355624078.mp3Food prices matter to us all. Of course they do. Food is the stuff of life itself. But the less money you have, the higher the proportion of your income you spend on food. So food prices matter more to the poor and that means food prices are a particular issue in Africa. Bear that in mind when you take a look at the latest table of world food prices which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation produces. It charts the real price of food over the past couple of decades and it shows a dramatic change. You've got almost 20 years of pretty stable prices and then up they go. Rising steeply, they drop back a bit and then up again - a bit like Mount Kilimanjaro, rising in all its forbidding majesty out of the great African Plain. What it's showing is that food prices in recent years have been historically very high, over double the average of the past couple of decades. But here's where the comparison with Kilimanjaro fails, because there is no sign of any significant drop in food prices.粮食价格与我们每个人都息息相关。肯定是这样的，因为粮食是维持生命的本源。但是你拥有的金钱越少，你收入中花在粮食上的支出比重就越大。所以粮食价格对穷人的影响更大，这意味着粮食价格在非洲是个特别的问题。当你查看联合国粮食及农业组织近期所发布的有关世界粮食价格的表格时，你得记住刚才那件事。这一表格描绘了过去几十年来的真实价格，变化显著。过去曾经有近20年价格非常平稳，然后突然就升高了。直线上升，然后下降一点点，又飙升——有点像乞力马扎罗峰，威严高耸在广阔的非洲平原上。这个表格显示近年来的粮食价格已经创造了历史新高，比过去几十年的平均价格翻了一番还多。但是有一点和乞力马扎罗峰的特点不一样， 因为粮食价格还没有下降的意味。
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