The world should prepare for “harder times ahead” according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation unless production of food crops increases significantly next year.

联合国粮农组织称，除非粮食作物产量明年大幅增加，否则世界应该为“今后更加艰难的时刻”作准备。

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According to the UN's food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), food prices last month surpassed their previous high in 2008.

联合国粮农组织调查发现，上个月的食品价格远远超过2008年的最高位。

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Commissioned by the UN food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), it distinguishes between food loss and food waste.

由联合国粮农组织委托，这项研究区分了食品损失和食物浪费。

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It is now working on a way for developing countries to share in profits made from organisms and genes that originate in their territories, and this could conceivably tidy up a messy area in which negotiators at the World Trade Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation are also active.

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