广播电视英语短句 第 188 课：粮食危机-5

They built processing mills and roads to market. 建筑加工厂和通往市场的公路。

And they protected their markets with high tariffs on imported food. 他们对进口食品征收高额关税以保护其市场。

But by the late nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers. 但在 20 世纪 70 年代末到 80 年代，这些国家没有更多的资金去帮助农民。

So they changed policies and tried another way to improve agriculture. 因此，他们改变的政策并且尝试用其他方式发展农业。

Governments and major lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund turned to free market policies. 政府和类似于世界银行和国际货币基金组织的主要借贷方主张自由市场政策。

We'll talk more next week about how the researchers link that change to the effects of the recent food crisis. 下周，我们会详细讲述研究人员所说的这种政策的变化和近期的粮食危机造成的影响之间的关系。