Some foods may be cheaper this year, but the decrease won't be dramatic. That’s according to the new director-general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, who says a slowdown in the world’s economy will be behind the price decline.
今年，一些粮食可能会更便宜，但是降幅不会很明显。据联合国粮农组织新总干事称，世界经济的放缓将落后于价格的下降。
Food prices may ease in 2012 due to a slowing global economy.
由于全球经济减速，2012年粮食价格可能会缓解。
That’s according to the new director general of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
这是联合国粮农组织新总干事所称的。
Speaking for the first time since taking the helm, Jose Graziano Da Silva told a news conference in Rome that despite easing prices, the new year will see more people at risk of hunger.
在接任以来的首次讲话中，若泽•格拉齐亚诺•达席尔瓦在罗马的一个新闻发布会上表示，虽然粮食价格缓解了，新一年将会更多人面临饥饿威胁。
UN FAO director general Jose Grazinao da Silva said: "We are expecting that prices will not be going up in the sense that they have been in the last two or three years. We are not also expecting that they will drop down as we faced in 2009. There will be some reductions but not so drastically like that in the short time. But, volatility will remain."
联合国粮农组织总干事若泽•格拉齐亚诺•达席尔瓦称：“我们希望粮食价格不会像过去两三年那样攀升。我们也不会期望粮食价格会降到2009年那样。价格将会有一些下降，但是短期内不会那样急剧。但是，波动将会维持。”
Graziano da Silva says the economic slowdown is unlikely to affect FAO projects.
格拉齐亚诺•达席尔瓦表示，经济放缓不太可能影响粮农组织的计划。
But it may increase the number of countries requiring help.
但是粮农组织可能增加需要帮助国家的数量。
Graziano da Silva said: "I really believe that FAO will only be affected that we will have much more work to do in a sense that there will be many more people getting hungry, unemployed, and we will need to find new ways to assist those governments."
格拉齐亚诺•达席尔瓦称：“我认为，粮农组织唯一会受到影响的是我们有更多工作要做，在某种程度上，将会有更多人挨饿、失业，我们需要寻找新方法来帮助那些政府。”
The FAO is the largest U.N. agency with an annual budget of around one billion U.S. dollars.
粮农组织是联合国最大的机构，年预算大约为10亿美元。
But last year Britain threatened to pull out of the organisation unless it improved its performance.
但是，去年英国威胁要退出该组织，除非它能改进工作情况。
And some donors such as the United States have initiated agricultural development projects of their own.
像美国这样的一些捐赠者已经着手它们自己的农业发展计划。