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By Peta Thornycroft
Harare
09 June 2008


Zimbabwe's current food crisis is the worst since government records began and is expected to worsen as summer crops will feed no more than 28 percent of the population according to an alert just issued by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET. Peta Thornycroft reports from Harare that Zimbabwe will now have to import a massive amount of food, particularly since it has ordered non-governmental organizations to stop distributing emergency food aid.
 






Zimbabwean woman puts maize 1 into bag in Domboshawa, 23 Apr 2008




Fewsnet provides detailed 2 information about food security in Zimbabwe and many other African countries. The U.S.-funded agency says Zimbabwe's 2008 cereal crops were the worst since records began even though the country's farmers plant more acres.

Fewsnet says that exceptionally heavy rain, then a long dry spell, as well as the government's failure to make esssential farming resources available, all contributed to record low yields.

It says in its report that humanitarian 3 agencies will have to play an increased role until next summer's harvest which begins in April of 2009.

Fewsnet predicted there would be political interference in food distribution.

On Thursday the government instructed international food agencies to withdraw from field work.

Zimbabwe's "Lawyers for Human Rights" says it has studied the letter written to the non governmental sector 4, and says reasons provided by welfare minister Nicholas Goche, have no basis in law. Goche charged the non-governmental sector had promoted the opposition 5 Movement for Democratic Change ahead of the March 29 elections.

Nevertheless, the aid agencies, which have denied Goche's allegations, have chosen not to challenge his instructions. Many of them are withdrawing personnel and infrastructure 6 from their field posts.

People working in aid agencies in Zimbabwe believe they have been closed down for two reasons. The first they say, is because they are witnesses to what goes on in the rural areas. The second is that they believe that President Robert Mugabe's government will soon begin food distribution ahead of the second round of the presidential election on June 27.

The runoff election became necessary because, although opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe, he did not win more than 50 percent of votes cast.

The United Nations in Zimbabwe estimates that an average of about four million people will be affected 7 by the government ban on aid agency work. Among them will be 185,000 children and tens of thousands of people receiving anti retroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS who need constant monitoring according to the Zimbabwe AIDS Council.



n.玉米
  • There's a field planted with maize behind the house.房子后面有一块玉米地。
  • We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
学英语单词
air fixed capacitor
airborne lift
aircraft role equipment
amount of substance concentration
antiquary
arouras
astronomical position finding
backward-rotating wave
bakeprofen
bangiophytes
bellerophontids
bipolaris sacchari
blue vulva
boring machine pillar
brain trusts
burst forming unit
cash-in-transit policy
cisterna
clone trial
CMC
cold-drawn steel wire
conquestor
crossover valve
danida
decay missing filling tooth
delvauxites
diode cathode
direct-fired kettle
error queue element
exit to
fentener
fitsky
gaining access
gd (gravity damper)
hagen-poiseville law
highly contagious
homards
hydraulic hitch system
I'm afraid so
incudectomy
jahn teller effect
Karapiro, L.
leavish
Licq-Athérey
Lolard
low-lipid lipoprotein
Malek Sīāh, Kūh-e
medailles
meroplius fasciculatus
mobilegrease
ms stereo
mugs' games
mus domesticus
muttsy
neutro-saline
not just another pretty face
occupational scheme
oil-well cement
Optional Surcharge
perennialize
pin hole
plexus sympathtici
pneumatic gripping device
point of presence,POP
Preb.
probe a mystery
processus maxillaris (oss. zygomaticus)
pseudocercospora diospyri-morrisianae
renewal of facing
root-rot of conifers (trametes radiciperda r. hartig)
rotating drum relay
Rubber Trade Association Clauses
Saida
Sclaventerol
shell-burst
short-arc lamp
smartdrvs
sorexes
spiropoachysine
spontaneous magnet
springhouse
stereotyped command
stopper
stovepiped
surface heat source
susianas
Suur Munamägi
symboleography
synthetic substances
thermal effusion
tone cluster
tribometric
tuataras
Tumba, L.
two-bank radial engine
unstandardized
urgemeter
vaselike
wall boundary layer
water dressing
water-gas producer
windrower