The risk is that millions of those on the lower rungs of the global economic ladder will start falling off as higher food prices drop their consumption below the survival level.

• 真正的危机是，随着不断高涨的粮食价格使人们的消费能力降低到生存线以下时，处于全球经济阶梯下层梯级的数百万人口将开始向更低梯级跌落。”