The steep rise in food prices, she argues, is the result of speculation in the futures markets; the famine is a chance for stricter financial regulation.

她认为，粮食价格的剧增，是期货市场投机活动的结果；而这次饥荒也是严格财政控制的良机。

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They have also been blamed for increasing grain demand and pushing up prices at a time of growing threat of famine in some parts of the world.

他们也批评生物燃料的生产增加了对谷物的需求并推高了粮价，并增加了世界上一些地区食物不足的风险。

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In parts of Somalia, drought, high food prices and conflict have combined to bring famine.

在索马里的部分地区，干旱，高粮价和冲突等综合因素造成了饥荒。

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In the worst-affected regions of Somalia, cereals prices are 260% higher than they were in 2010, comparable to what happened in Ethiopia, when grain prices in famine-stricken northern provinces in mid-1985 were about 300%-350% of their levels the year before.

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