南非面臨久旱食物短缺問題

　　12月25日VOA聽力：南非面對亢旱食品缺乏題目

　　Several provinces in South Africa have been declareddrought disaster areas,threatening foodshortages across the country.

　　“We should now be having pretty heavy rains.

　　They have not happened.

　　It's extremely hot where I am.

　　Farmers they can't yet farm their crops becausethere is no rain and their livestock are dying.

　　Speaking via Skype from Johannesburg, WFP's David Orr says“Malawi, Zimbabwe andMadagascar are the world's hit countries. ”

　　He says the first task has been to help the most vulnerable.”

　　“These are multimillion-dollar assistance programs.

　　So In Zimbabwe, for example, we need to raise $55 million.

　　We are about 50 percent funded.

　　I believe in Zimbabwe this is a big challenge not just for WFP but for all aid agencies with somany huge humanitarian emergencies around the world of the moment: Syria, Iraq, SouthSudan and Yemen.

　　Once South Africa suffers from drought.

　　Malawi has been hit with floods and late, erratic rains.

　　“We have a combination of floods which wiped out a lot of the standing crops, principallymaize and then the short growing season and dry spells.

　　There was also an impact on legumes, beans and some of the cowpeas that are grown.

　　Via Skype Saved the Children's Matthew Pickard says Malawi's government has launched anemergency appeal for $140 million.

　　“We are working with 450,000 people.

　　Our response is $40 million.

　　And it is predominantly looking at using cash.

　　Cash transfers to vulnerable households to enable them to purchase foods. ”

　　Pickard says mobile cash transfers have reached 82,000 families since October.

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　　南非一些省已頒布了對全部國度食品造成威逼的旱災地域。

　　這個處所如今應當迎來大批的雨水。

　　但是卻並未如願產生。

　　我地點的這個處所異常酷熱。

　　因為沒有雨水農人們如今還不克不及種莊稼，並且他們的畜生也行將滅亡。

　　天下食糧籌劃署的大衛·奧爾在約翰內斯堡經由過程Skype表現:“馬拉維、津巴布韋和馬達加斯加是天下上受災最為緊張的地域。”

　　他表現當務之急一向是贊助大多半窮漢。

　　這些都是數百萬美元的支援項目。

　　是以，好比津巴布韋，咱們須要籌集到5500萬美元。

　　如今咱們已籌集到一半。

　　我信任在津巴布韋這不但對天下食糧署是個偉大的挑釁，並且對付今朝如敘利亞、伊拉克、南蘇丹及也門等地的天下大型人性主義緊迫支援機構而言也是如斯。

　　南非曾遭受幹旱。

　　馬拉維遭遇了大水、爾後降雨又反復不定。

　　咱們這裏的大水會將主如果玉米等及發展期短，幹旱期的大批未收割農作物沖走。

　　這也對豆類植物、豆類及一些豇豆發生影響。

　　救濟兒童構造的馬修·皮卡德經由過程Skype表現馬拉維當局已啟動了1.4億人的緊迫相應計劃。

　　咱們如今同45萬人一路協作。

　　咱們的資金是4萬萬。

　　主如果應用現金。

　　現金會達到貧苦家庭手中讓他們購置食物。

　　皮卡德表現自從10月以來這類活動現金已投遞82000至個家庭中。