How to Feed the Peoples of India and Africa?
08/05/2013
Shoppers at a market in Ahmadabad, India.
Hello, and welcome to “As It Is,” our daily show for people learning American English.
I’m Christopher Cruise in Washington.
Today on the program, we look at whether African leaders have kept the promise they made ten years ago to spend more money on agriculture research.
“…the level of execution, the real expenditure of this budget, remain unfortunately very low -- between 65 to 70 percent of the resources allocated are really spent [on farmers.]”
And we take you back 119 years, to the day when workers began building the foundation on which the Statue of Liberty would stand, on an island in New York harbor.
“He realized his statue would have a greater impact in the busiest harbor.”
But first, we go to India, where the government says it has a plan to help the country’s many millions of poor people deal with the rising cost of food…
In India, Worry About Sharply-Rising Food Prices
The Indian government says it will pay to lower the cost of food grains for more than two-thirds of the country’s 1.2 billion people. But not everyone thinks the program will work. And some critics believe the government is supporting the plan only to get votes.
Faith Lapidus reports…
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