新奇事件簿 無(wú)聲的饑餓危機(jī)

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A new report from the United Nations says one in eight people around the world does not have enough food. The U.N. reports that 842 million people suffer from very serious hunger. This is about 12 per cent of the world population. This percentage has gone down. It was 17 per cent in 1992. The U.N. says many countries still cannot find ways to feed their people. Africa is the region with the highest number of undernourished people. The U.N. says that one in five Africans is undernourished. In over 19 African nations, more than a quarter of the population goes hungry. The U.N. said 98 per cent of the world's hungry people live in developing countries.

聯(lián)合國(guó)最新研究表明全球8個(gè)人中就有1人餓肚子。聯(lián)合國(guó)報(bào)道稱全球有8億4200萬(wàn)人面臨著嚴(yán)峻的饑餓問(wèn)題。這大約是全球總?cè)丝诘?2%。而這一百分比有所下降。1992年，這一數(shù)字為17%。聯(lián)合國(guó)稱許多國(guó)家就饑餓問(wèn)題還沒(méi)有找到解決法。非洲是遭受營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良問(wèn)題最嚴(yán)重的地區(qū)。聯(lián)合國(guó)稱5名非洲人就有1人營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良。在非洲許多國(guó)家，有超過(guò)四分之一的人口餓肚子，而這一國(guó)家數(shù)量超過(guò)了19個(gè)。聯(lián)合國(guó)稱全球98%的受災(zāi)群眾生活在發(fā)展中國(guó)家。

The World Food Programme (WFP) explained that undernourishment is "not having enough food for an active and healthy life" and an inability to "meet dietary energy requirements". The WFP said hunger is now the largest risk to people's health around the world. It is a more serious problem than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. One of the biggest reasons for people being hungry is war. The U.N. said developing countries that have experienced war in the past 20 years have bigger problems feeding their people. Scientists say this situation could get worse because of climate change. Hotter temperatures in more countries will mean farmers cannot grow enough food, leading to more hunger.

世界糧食計(jì)劃署解釋道營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良的意思是因食物短缺而無(wú)法維持健康的身體狀態(tài)，無(wú)法滿足能量需求。世界糧食計(jì)劃署稱目前，饑餓是生命健康的最大威脅。饑餓比艾滋病、瘧疾以及肺結(jié)核加起來(lái)的威脅還要大。而造成人們餓肚子的主要原因之一是戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。聯(lián)合國(guó)稱在過(guò)去20年經(jīng)受過(guò)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)洗禮的發(fā)展中國(guó)家更容易受到饑餓的威脅?？茖W(xué)家稱氣候變化很有可能加劇這一情況。炙熱的天氣意味著農(nóng)民無(wú)收成，并將進(jìn)一步面臨饑餓問(wèn)題。