IIEA2011.3.1---David Rieff :阿拉伯起义和全球粮食危机

IIEA2011.3.1---David Rieff :阿拉伯起义和全球粮食危机
David Rieff on The Arab Uprisings and the Global Food Crisis
About the Speaker:
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for The New Republic, he has written extensively about the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Rieff is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He is currently completing a book about the global food crisis.
About the Event:
Global food prices reached a record high in January 2011, surpassing even the levels seen during the 2007-08 food crisis. This latest surge in wholesale prices has been stoking inflationary pressures and triggering food riots across the developing world. One manifestation of the crisis can be seen in the extraordinary uprisings in the Maghreb and the Arab Middle East, where, according to Rieff, the failure of official development aid policies has been an important contributory factor. Rieff's presentation focused in particular on the issue of chronic malnutrition in children and the vicious cycle of poverty that this tends to engender.

大卫Rieff对阿拉伯起义和全球粮食危机
讲者简介：
大卫Rieff是在纽约的记者和作家。在20世纪90年代，他包括在非洲（卢旺达，布隆迪，刚果，利比里亚），巴尔干（波斯尼亚和科索沃）和中亚的冲突。现在是纽约时报杂志作家，为新的共和国的特约编辑，他曾撰写了大量关于中东，非洲和拉丁美洲。 Rieff是八本书，包括屠房作者：波斯尼亚和西方的失败和床铺过夜：人道主义危机。他目前正在完成一个关于全球粮食危机的书。
关于此事件：
全球粮食价格达到创纪录的2011年1月高，甚至超过了在2007-08粮食危机的水平。这种最新的批发价格急升，通胀压力和被煽动整个发展中世界引发粮食暴动。这场危机的一个表现可以看出，马格里布和中东阿拉伯，在那里，根据Rieff，官方发展援助政策的失败是一个重要的促成因素非凡的起义。 Rieff的介绍侧重，特别是对慢性营养不良的儿童和贫困的恶性循环，这往往会产生问题