Investing in agricultural research and development can help poor countries fight hunger and poverty. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
在农业研究开发方面投资可以帮助贫困国家消除贫穷和饥饿。
Nigeria was responsible for one-third of it. Ghana, Tanzania, Sudan and Uganda also increased their spending. But thirteen countries decreased their investments.
尼日利亚占到了其中的1/3。加纳、坦桑尼亚、苏丹和乌干达也增加了在农业上投资。但也有13个国家削减了投资。
Nienke Beintema from the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute led the study. She says new technologies are needed to deal with some of the causes of hunger.
来自华盛顿国际粮食政策研究所的Nienke Beintema领导了这项研究。她说,处理造成饥饿的一些根源需要新技术支持。
1)A new study says investments in some south Affrica increase by more than twenty percent between two thousand one and two thousand eight ,but the study also found just a few countries were responsible for most that growth