"We're working with our Board to deploy index-related hedges and insurance products to protect poor farmers and countries from weather and supply shocks," said Zoellick.

“我们正与我们的理事会一道制定与指标相连的对冲和保险产品，以保护贫困的农民和国家不受气候和供应冲击的影响，”佐利克说。

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The report highlighted how poor consumers, small farmers and countries dependent on imports, especially in Africa, have been deeply affected by the food and economic crises.

这份报告强调了贫困的消费者、小农户和依赖进口的国家、尤其是非洲国家受到了粮食和经济危机的深重影响。

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Studies have shown that farmers in developing countries who have achieved certain levels of education, wealth, and security of land tenure are more likely to adopt such technologies.

研究表明，在发展中国家，拥有一定教育水平、财富和土地所有权保障的农民更有可能采用这类技术。

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But by the late nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Heifer International provides donated animals and training to farmers in fifty countries.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

And it became popular with farmers in other African countries.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The US and many European countries give large subsidies, billions a year, to their farmers, and there's a feeling that that distorts the act of global agricultural markets so badly that poor farmers and poor countries simply can't enter it.

NPR: G8 Leaders Agree on Aid Package for Africa

The campaign endeavours to encourage people to use fair traded products which supports millions of farmers and workers in developing countries.

BBC: Fairtrade debate

Food exporters, and countries where farmers are self-sufficient, or net sellers, benefit.

ECONOMIST: Food