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VOA慢速讲解附字幕:非洲在农业研发方面投资不足 查看原文 第一部分：原文中英对照 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Investing in agricultural research and development can help poor countries fight hunger and poverty. A new study says investments in sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than twenty percent between two thousand one and two thousand eight. But the study also found that just a few countries were responsible for most of that growth. Nigeria was responsible for one-third of it. Ghana, Tanzania, Sudan and Uganda also increased their spending. But thirteen countries decreased their investments. Nienke Beintema from the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute led the study. She says new technologies are needed to deal with some of the causes of hunger. NIENKE BEINTEMA: Food price volatility, growing population, water scarcity and climate change. There is more demand on better technologies or different technologies to address these issues. She says some countries, including Nigeria, have increased their investments after spending far too little in the past. 这里是VOA 特别英语农业报道。 在农业研发方面进行投资可以帮助贫困国 家解决饥饿和贫困问题。一项新的研究表 明，2001 年至2008 年期间，撒哈拉以南非 洲在农业方面的投资增加了20%以上。但是 这项研究还发现，对这个增长数字作出贡献 的只有少数几个国家。 该数字增长的三分之一应该归功于尼日利 亚。加纳，坦桑尼亚，苏丹和乌干达也增加 了农业方面的支出。但是十三个国家在农业 方面的投资出现下降。 这项研究由华盛顿国际粮食政策研究所的 Nienke Beintema 负责。她表示，解决贫困国 家的饥饿问题需要新的技术。 Nienke Beintema：“粮食价格的上涨，人口 的断增加，水资源短缺和气候变化都是造成 饥饿现象的原因。这就要求更好的或者不同 的技术来解决这些问题。” 她表示，尼日利亚等国家过去在农业方面的 投入远远不足，现在则增加了农业研发方面 的投资。 VOA 慢速讲解2011-5-3 第676 期QIHUI 制作可可英语: 2 NIENKE BEINTEMA: It is a positive sign because it is more commitment from the government. But Nigeria had extremely low levels of agricultural research funding. I was there for the first time in two thousand or two thousand one. And I visited institutes that could not function. They even did not have a phone line, or they did not have gas for the cars, one computer that did not work. Nigeria now has the largest agricultural research system south of the Sahara. That is one measure of pro