The villages that I visited – in Tajikistan, Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Cambodia, and elsewhere – reflect the condition of hundreds of millions of impoverished people worldwide. Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
我访问的这些村庄——遍布塔吉克斯坦、也门、马里、埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达、马拉维、柬埔寨及其他地方——反映了全世界数以亿计的贫困人口的现状。贫困的原因不论是干旱、土壤贫瘠、蝗虫灾害、还是缺乏高产作物的种子，结果都是一样的：绝望、疾病和死亡。