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C. Keywords
malnutrition, malnourished.
Vocabulary
malnutrition, malnourished, boost, infrastructure, scant, bleak, eliminate.
Listen carefully, complete the following statements with the information you hear.
The International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington says international efforts to reduce the number of malnourished children in the world have been awfully inadequate.
It predicts that despite a 20% decline in the number of malnourished children by 2020, 132 million will still be underfed.
The cost of cutting child malnutrition in half by 2020 would be an extra 10 billion dollars a year.
25 billion dollars now invested in developing countries annually to boost farm productivity, secure clean water sources, develop world infrastructure and improve education and health.
10 billion dollars more is a scant amount.
Not all regions face equally bleak food futures.
Latin America will virtually eliminate child malnutrition by 2020, and China will cut it in half.
But the food policy organization says India will continue to have one thirds of the world's underfed children. And Africa will see 18% increase unless action is taken.
