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【Egyptian Presidential Hopeful Morsi Leads Pack】埃及总统希望者Morsiy领先群雄
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BRIEF:Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was not his Islamist group's first choice for its presidential candidate. But he got the job when the Brotherhood's lead candidate was disqualified and then became a front-runner in a show of the group's political muscle.
During the campaign, Morsi delivered fiery speeches and vowed his presidency would be based on Islam but not be a theocracy.
Morsi was born in the Nile Delta in 1951 and received an engineering degree from Cairo University before earning a doctorate in the United States.
He has long been active in the Muslim Brotherhood. He was elected to parliament and later became a spokesman for the group.
He was arrested and jailed in 2006 for several months and again briefly at the start of Egypt's pro-democracy protests last year.
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【A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers】对妇女农民同等权利的呼吁
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TEXT:This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men, more could be done to reduce world hunger. The report, " Empowering Women in Agriculture," is from the anti-hunger group Bread for the World. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help increase food security and economic growth.
Faustine Wabwire is the group's foreign assistance specialist.
FAUSTINE WABMIRE: "Women constituted half of the agricultural labor force in not just Africa, but the developing countries as a whole. And when you think of Africa alone, it's more than sixty percent of the total agricultural labor force being provided by women."
The report says in most countries, women working in rural areas are more likely than men to hold seasonal, part-time and low-wage jobs.
They also receive less pay for the same work.
Ms. Wabwire says women farmers often cannot get seeds, fertilizer, proper tools, credit and, especially, land.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "For most of Africa, we have about eighty percent of the population living in rural areas and they subsist on agriculture. Now women make sixty percent of the agricultural labor force and they have no access to resources. So, for example, land is one good example where less than twenty percent of all landholders are women."
This is often because of legal as well as cultural reasons. She says women who have lost their husbands may have no legal rights over their land. The only way to keep the land, she says, is to marry, say, the brother of the dead husband.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "So constraints like this are still very prevalent in most African societies and they continue to impede women's ability to fully enjoy their human rights."
However, Ms. Wabwire says women in agriculture are getting more attention these days. For example, Kenya's new constitution gives women the right to own land. But she says there is still a long way to go. Bread for the World is urging the United States government to increase development assistance, or at least not to decrease it.
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: "This assistance through programs such as Feed the Future, which is the U.S. government's agriculture program, is helping to elevate the status of women. It's enabling women to access productive resources such as seeds. They are able to have access toextension services , which will enable them to produce more and contribute to healthy societies."
But Ms. Wabwire says more African governments must recognize the major role that women play in agriculture and elsewhere. The report says, "Putting more income in the hands of women translates into improved child nutrition, health, and education."
Just how much could hunger be reduced if women had equal access to agricultural resources? The report estimates that hunger could be reduced for an extra one hundred to one hundred fifty million people.
And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. You can find a link to the Bread for the World report at 51voa.com. I'm Jim Tedder.
参考译文：这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
一份新报道称，如果女性农民和男性有同样的权利，就可以进一步减少全世界的饥饿问题。这份名为“给女性以农业权利”的报道是反饥饿组织“施世面包”发表的，该组织称，农业上权利的平等有助于提高粮食安全和经济发展。
Faustine Wabwire是该组织的外事援助专家。
Faustine Wabwire：“不仅在非洲，包括在全部发展中国家中，妇女都占了农业劳动力的一半。就说非洲吧，有60%以上的农业劳动力都是女性。”
报道称在很多国家，与男人相比，妇女更多地从事季节性、兼职和低收入的工作。而且做同样的工作收入要少。
Wabwire说，女性农民通常无法得到种子、化肥、合适的农具、信贷，以及最重要的—土地。
Faustine Wabwire：“在非洲大多数地区，约有80%的人口居住在农村地区，靠农业为生。如今，妇女占农业劳动力的60%，但她们却无法得到资源。比如土地就是个很好的例子，只有不到20%的土地拥有者是妇女。”
这通常是由于法律和文化上的原因，她说，失去丈夫的妇女可能就无法拥有土地权。得到土地的唯一途径，就是嫁人，嫁给已故丈夫的兄弟。
Faustine Wabwire：“这类限制在非洲大部分社区很常见，仍将继续阻碍着妇女享有的人权。”
然而，Wabwire说，从事农业的女性近来得到了越来越多的关注。比如，肯尼亚新宪法赋予妇女以土地权。不过她说，还有很长的路要走。“施世面包”一直在督促美国政府增加发展援助，至少不该减少援助。
FAUSTINE WABWIRE: “诸如美国政府‘哺育未来’这样的农业援助项目，帮助提高了妇女地位，使妇女可以得到诸如种子之类的生产资源。她们还能得到延伸服务，从而为健康社会提供创造和贡献。”
不过，WABWIRE还说，必须有更多的非洲政府意识到妇女在农业等领域的重要性。报道称，“增加女性收入可以提高孩子的营养、健康和教育水平。”
如果妇女得到平等的农业资源，能减少多少饥饿人口呢？这份报道估计说，可以减少另外1.5亿饥饿人口。
注：本VOA慢速译文由可可英语Sunny提供
