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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
A.C.E. mixture
absolute thermal detector
acceleratory nerve
admissibilities
aircraft accident report
anisocarpic
applicaton for business
arternoon
atrichum undulatum
automatic dry-pipe sprinkler system
baso-erythrocytosis
batching machine
benefit performance
besot by
binary alloy steel
boetsches
caligo corneae
camera primaries
capital gain dividends
capitoli
cargo information
chain linkage
Chiselet
chitonomyces bidessarius
chuanchih-do (konni-do)
claw like termination
cost behavior analysis
disorbing
each, every
electro-magnetic compactibility
enthronizes
ethyl phosphite
fetel
forpine
fukienensis
gain frequency characteristic
gallused
gastightness test
greek to me
grounded clutch
gulosarmentoglucoside
harmony of trade
high-frequency resistance welding machine
historical geotectonics
holding up as
homogeneous concrete
invalidatings
invariance thesis
judicial world
labelling reader
laetmogonids
level of a test
limitation clause
macromerine
Mayvale
merogenote
millreis
natural food additive
noncyclical
ohmic heating carrier
opening price
peyroulet
photo-generated current
Physaliastrum
plug-assist forming
powdered fertilizer distributor
predicated-wave signaling
pylorochesis
quick start unit
range analysis
red sensitive
resistivity spectrum
rhinotrach(e)itis
Rusbend
salbutamols
Sambang-ri
sartori
self-commutated inverter
semibuoyant
sociographs
soon-to-weds
spherical motor
squitter-
stalk-liker
stereochemists
stop plug
supervillainy
Surkhet
switching process
temporale crest
TETRAC
TN-762
Tomonaga
tower basin
transcendental method
triketocholanic acid
troleandomycine
trollings
ulinka
upgrade to
varicorhinus barbatulus
work saddle