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Growing a Better Future “栽种”一个更美好的未来 Summary 概要 Oxfam was created in 1942 in response to a food crisis. Seventy years on, the world faces another – this time one that threatens us all. The emergency of 1942 was caused by the Second World War; today’s crisis is the product of a grotesque global injustice. Nearly one billion people face hunger every day, while the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production from which they are excluded have placed us all on a collision course with our planet’s ecological limits. 乐施会于 1942 年为应对粮食危机而创立。70 年之后，世界再次面临另一次粮食危 机，而这次危机对我们所有人类都构成了威胁。第二次世界大战的爆发引发了 1942 年的粮食告急；今天出现的粮食危机则是全球各种不公平现象的产物。全球每天都将 近有十亿人口挣扎在饥饿边缘，同时却另外一些人无视饥民的存在而继续过度消费， 而且以不可持续的生产模式虚耗资源，让我们所有人处于与地球生态极限出现冲突的 境地。 The warning signs are clear. We have entered an age of crisis: of food price spikes and oil price hikes; of scrambles for land and water; of creeping, insidious climate change. The 2008 spike in food prices pushed some 100 million people into poverty. Price rises 1 so far in 2011 have done the same to 44 million more. These statistics mask millions of individual stories of suffering and heartbreak as families struggle to cope with deepening poverty. Households falling into debt. Mothers going without meals and healthcare. Elderly people abandoned. 地球发出的警报信号已经非常明显。我们已经进入了危机时代：粮食价格飙升和原油 价格居高不下、对土地和水源的争夺、在不知不觉间已经蔓延的气候变化危机。2008 年粮食价格的暴涨已经将接近一亿人口推向贫困的境况。今年以来 （2011 年）粮食价 格攀升也同样导致增加了近 4,400 多万贫困人口。这些统计资料的背后，是众多家庭 为了摆脱日益加深的贫困而苦苦挣扎的无数痛苦和伤心事。这些家庭入不敷支，负债 累累，养育儿女的妇女食不果腹，亦没有获得应有的卫生保健，而且老年人更无人赡 养。 Hunger is the bellwether of a deeper malaise. Despite huge increases in productivity and incomes over recent decades, global hunger is on the rise. Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and a robust economic basis for