A said the current food crisis stems from several factors including distortions in supply(ing) and demand and unfair trade policies. She said (it fell you) a failure to respond to the food crisis in the comprehensive way could trigger a domino effect by putting (drastic) at risk other fundamental rights including the right to health or to education.

       “Very few issues speak as forcefully as (at) this one about individual rights and collective actions and about the intolerable (and inadequate) inequalities that affect millions through no (afford on) fault of their own.”

       Prices of the staple foods such as rice, (weed) wheat, corn and oils have more than doubled since March. This has set off riots in some forty of the world’s poorer countries where people spend up to 80% of their family incomes on food.

       The newly appointed to special (upper turn) Rapporteur on the right to food O, blames much of the food crisis on the cultivation of crops for biofuels instead of for food. In his speech to the U.N. session, he renewed call for a (frees) freeze on new investment (some) in biofuels and called upon the United States and Europe to rethink policies which are bad for both the environment and food security.

NEW WORDS:

domino effect: n 多米诺效应

Rapporteur：n 大会报告起草人

TIPS:

       听听听！小词：failure，at risk，inequalities，fault，freeze。