I asked one farmer in the highlands of Ethiopia what would happen if the food aid stopped coming.

我问埃塞俄比亚高地一位农民，如果停止食物援助会发生什么情况。

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The aid agency says tens of thousands of drought victims are fleeing to parts of Kenya and Ethiopia where they hope to find food.

这个机构说，数万受灾民众正逃往肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚的一些地方，他们希望在那里找到食物。

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Ethiopia has been hit particularly hard by price increases, with inflation rates for food reaching 40 percent.

物价上涨对埃塞俄比亚的影响尤其严重，食品价格的通货膨胀率已达40%。

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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

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He said Europe was making urgent plans, together with other donors, to send some 800, 000 tonnes of food aid to Ethiopia.

BBC: Aid to Ethiopia 'too slow'

Last year, tens of thousands of Somalis fled rural areas - many over the borders to Ethiopia and Kenya - in search of food.

BBC: Famine conditions in Somalia have ended, UN says

And it prevents food for land-locked Ethiopia arriving through the Eritrean ports of Massawa and Assab, from where it could be carried on by rail.

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