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Pedro Sanchez works to eradicate hunger with the Millennium Villages Project?

At least a billion people don't know where their next meal is coming from. That's according to Pedro Sanchez, an agricultural expert at Columbia University's Earth Institute, and director of the Millennium Villages Project. The project aims to help combat hunger, starting with 80 villages in Africa.

皮德羅·桑切斯說至少10億人下一頓飯沒有著落。皮德羅·桑切斯是哥倫比亞大學(xué)地球研究所的專家，也是“千禧村”項目的主管。該項目旨在與饑餓斗爭，從幫助非洲80個村落擺脫饑餓開始努力。

Pedro Sanchez: We selected the villages, making sure that first they were in hunger hotspots – more than 20% underweight children under the age of 5, the hunger definition – and spread them around Africa.

皮德羅·桑切斯：我們選擇的是極度被饑餓困惱的村落—5歲以下20%兒童體重不達標(biāo)，符合饑餓定義。之后再幫助非洲所有的村落。

Sanchez explained that the eradication of hunger is the first goal of the UN Millennium Development Goals, a series of targeted improvements for the developing world aimed at the year 2015.

桑切斯解釋說根除饑餓是“聯(lián)合國千年發(fā)展目標(biāo)”的首項任務(wù)。“聯(lián)合國千年發(fā)展目標(biāo)”意味著在2015年解決發(fā)展中國家一系列定向改善計劃。

Pedro Sanchez: We both have a moral as well as an economic obligation to wipe out this extreme hunger in the next 20 years. And I think we can do it.

皮德羅·桑切斯：無論道德還是經(jīng)濟上，我們都有義務(wù)在未來20年根除這些極度饑餓現(xiàn)象。我相信我們能做到。

He said that, when the Millenium Villages Project began, Earth Institute experts helped figure out which seeds and fertilizers would work best in each village. In the past five years, Sanchez said crop yields in the Millenium Villages have about tripled. But Critics of the Millennium Villages Project question whether such improvements can be sustained after the project ends. That’s why, according to the Earth Institute, the final years of the project will be devoted to strengthening the villages' economies.

他說，自“千禧村”啟動，地球研究所專家們就研究出每個村落最適合的種子和肥料。在過去5年，這些村莊的莊稼收成翻三番。但該項目的一些批評者質(zhì)疑項目結(jié)束后這些改善能否繼續(xù)維持。為解除這一擔(dān)憂，地球研究所在項目最后幾年致力于強化村落經(jīng)濟。

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