VOA常速英语:Ensuring Food Security, Tackling Climate Change

短语讲解：

1. The recommendations from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change released Wednesday come in advance of the U.N. climate change conference this month in Durban, South Africa.

in advance of在…之前, 超过
例句：British Summer Time is one hour in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.
英国的夏季时间比标准时间快一小时。

2. It’s seen and it’s arguably ironic that at the same time there [are] about a billion people or so who are suffering from chronic disease due to over consumption

suffer from受苦;患病
例句：My father suffers from high blood pressure.
我父亲有高血压。
due to由于，因为
Her absence is due to illness.
她因病缺席。

3. We’ve seen in the last two or three years significant price spikes, following on decades of declines in real food prices.

follow on继续; 随之发生
例句：Disease often follows on starvation because the body is weakened.
疾病的产生往往是由于饥饿的缘故。

4. Something of the order of a hundred million people went into poverty following the 2007/8 price spike – another 40 or so million went into poverty after the 2010/11 price spike

go into进入(某种状态)
例句：He went into a rage when he learned about it.
他听到这事后勃然大怒。

5. And we can expect these more severe events leading to really difficult social, economic and ecologic consequences

lead to导致, 引起
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌。

6. The challenge that’s ahead of us globally is really quite hard even to comprehend because we must increase global food production by 2050 by some 30 to 80 percent and reduce our emissions by half.

ahead of在…之前
例句：Ahead of us stretches a forest.
我们前面是一片森林。

7. Following the recent food supply and price crises, world leaders pledged to invest much more in agriculture, especially smallholder agriculture.

invest in在…上投资, 在…投入(时间、精力等)
例句：The company lacks sufficient money to invest in new products.
公司没有足够的钱对新产品投资。

8. Financing – how can we mobilize much more resources to address the problems of climate change? -- in this case related to such an important issue, which is food security and agricultural production

relate to涉及, 关系到…
例句：The lawyer read all the papers relating to the case.
律师阅读了与该案有关的全部文件。

9. They include integrating food security and sustainable agriculture into both global and national policies; raising the level of agricultural investment; sustainably increasing agricultural production while reducing the environmental impact; and assisting vulnerable populations to adapt to climate change and food insecurity.

integrate into与…成为一体
例句：Immigrants are integrated into the community.
移民与该地区的居民融为一体。
adapt to变得习惯于…, 使适应于, 能应付…
例句：I adapted quickly to the new climate.
我很快地适应了这种新的气候。