跟读练习: A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
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A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men,
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more could be done to reduce world hunger.
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The report, Empowering Women in Agriculture,
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is from the anti-hunger group Bread for the World.
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Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help increase food security and economic growth.
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Faustine Wabwiri is the group's foreign assistance specialist.
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She says women constitute half of the agricultural labor force in not just Africa,
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but the developing countries as a whole.
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And when you think of Africa alone,
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she says, it's more than 60 percent of the total agricultural labor force being provided by women.
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The report says in most countries,
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women working in rural areas are more likely than men to hold seasonal,
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part-time and low-wage jobs.
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They also receive less pay for the same work.
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Ms. Wabwiri says women farmers often cannot get seeds,
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fertilizer, proper tools, credit and especially land.
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She says in most of Africa,
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about 80% of the population is living in rural areas and they subsist on agriculture.
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Women make up 60% of the agricultural labor force and yet they lack access to resources, she says.
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She says land is one good example.
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Less than 20 percent of all landholders are women.
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This is often because of legal as well as cultural reasons.
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She says women who have lost their husbands may have no legal rights over their land.
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The only way to keep the land,
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she says, is to marry,
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say, the brother of the dead husband.
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Restrictions like these, she says,
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continue to impede women's ability to fully enjoy their human rights.
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However, Ms. Wabwiri says women in agriculture are getting more attention these days.
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For example, Kenya's new constitution gives women the right to own land.
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But she says there is still a long way to go.
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Bread for the World is urging the United States government to increase development assistance,
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or at least not to decrease it.
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She says Feed the Future, the U.S government's agriculture aid program,
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is helping to elevate the status of women.
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But Ms. Wabwiri says more African governments must recognize the major role that women play in agriculture and elsewhere.
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Just how much could hunger be reduced if women had equal access to agricultural resources?
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The report estimates that hunger could be reduced for an extra 100 to 150 million people.
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For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal.
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常见的发音陷阱
在本视频中，某些单词和短语可能对英语学习者构成发音挑战：
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