石油价格上涨对其他许多商品的价格引起了连锁反应。
The increase in the price of oil had a knock-on effect on the cost of many other goods.
首先，国家最终摆脱了他们在2008年初，在粮价上涨引起的高度恐慌时强制实行的非常不利己的反农民政策。
One is that countries are at last getting rid of the self-defeating anti-farmer policies that they imposed at the height of panic over rising food prices in early 2008.
最近多种食品价格的上涨反映的是暂时的供应扭曲(例如干旱和洪水引起的)，但油价上涨则是因为强劲的需求和相对不变的产量。
Whereas recent increases in many food prices reflect temporary supply disruptions (such as droughts and flooding), the rise in the oil price is due to strong demand and stagnating production.
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