What is needed, says another expert, Gerald Nelson at the University of Illinois, is another Green Revolution to increase productivity. This past weekend, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their spring meetings in Washington. The bank president said hunger, malnutrition and food policy were a central issue.

另一位专家，Illinois大学的Gerald Nelson认为，需要的是再一次绿色革命来增加产量。在过去的一周内，国际货币基金组织和世界银行在华盛顿举行了他们的春季会议。世界银行行长指出，饥饿、营养不良和食品政策是核心问题。

The United Nations World Food Program has appealed for five hundred million dollars by May first. Bob Zoellick said donor countries had promised almost half of the money, but that was not enough.

联合国食品计划已经呼吁到5月1日筹集到5亿美元资金。Bob Zoellick指出，援助国已经捐助了将近一半的资金，但是这还不够。

He said a doubling of food prices over the last three years could push one hundred million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty. And that could hurt future generations.

他指出，过去三年中食品价格翻了一番，这使得低收入国家中的1亿人口变得更加贫困。并且还可能会危害未来的几代人。

I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the real problem is a food deficit which will probably last for years. He says it can be argued that there are good reasons, connected to climate change, to try to push countries to substitute some kind of biofuel for oil.

国际货币基金组织Dominique Strauss-Kahn认为，实质性的问题是食品短缺，并且这可能会持续数年。他指出，气候改变等原因可以作为很好的理由来敦促一些国家用生物燃料代替石油。

But he says nations have to balance the production of biofuel from food crops with biofuel from nonfood resources. Some of the finance ministers in Washington said using food for fuel is a crime against humanity.

但是他指出，国家必须平衡用粮食作物和非粮食作物生产的生物燃料的产量。一些国家的财政部长在华盛顿的会议上指出，使用食物生产是一种违背人道主义的犯罪行为。