在冬季湛蓝的天空下，我们沿着翻耕过的红褐色的农田行走，很有可能会被人误认为是约旦河西岸版的“最后的夏日之酒”。
As we walk under a brilliant winter sky of clear blue along the fields of ploughed red-brown earth, we could be mistaken for a West Bank version of Last of the Summer Wine.
撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲大陆只有百分之四的农田得到灌溉。这就意味着大部分农民，尤其是小块土地的经营者，都是靠天吃饭。
Only 4% of farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is irrigated, which means that most farmers, especially smallholders, rely on rainfall to feed their crops.
农田成为沙漠，海洋成为死亡之区。
Our fields will turn to deserts, our seas to zones of death.
这些防护林带有效地保护了农田，使之免受流沙侵袭。
These tree belts effectively protect the farmland against shifting sand.
今天，美国百分之八十种植黄豆、玉米和棉花的农田都经过了基因改造。
Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic. Genetic engineering adds or changes genes in a plant to produce desired qualities.
近半个世纪以来，海地约有百分之九十的森林为了给农田与种植园腾出土地而遭到砍伐，从而导致水土流失，使全国三分之二最佳农田被毁。
About 90 percent of Haiti's forests were clear-cut in the last half-century to make rooms for fields and plantations, leading to erosion that has ruined two-thirds of the nation's best farmland.
近半个世纪以来，海地约有百分之九十的森林为了给农田与种植园腾出土地而遭到砍伐，从而导致水土流失，使全国三分之二最佳农田被毁。
About 90 percent of Haiti's forests were clear-cut in the last half-century to make rooms for fields and plantations, leading to erosion that has ruined two-thirds of the nation's best farmland.
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