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From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report.
The United Nations is warning that the world is not prepared to deal with the fast growth of cities. The World Economic and Social Survey 2013 calls for new ways to meet the needs of city populations. More than 6.5 billion people are expected to be living in cities by 2050.
Most new city dwellers will be in developing countries. The United Nations says the effect on limited resources in many countries will be huge. The World Economic and Social Survey points to the increasing demand for energy, water, sanitation, public services, education and health care.
The world population is expected to rise to more than nine billion by 2050, two-thirds of all people are expected to live in cities. The United Nations says about 80 percent of this growing urban population will be found in Africa and Asia.
The report says sustainable development of urban areas requires coordination and investments to deal with important issues, these include land-use, food security, job creation and transportation.
Willem Van Der Geest is with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, he says cities need to work closely with rural communities, so that food supplies can be secured, and the environment can be protected.
"We need sufficient integration with cities... An integration between the rural and urban economies is absolutely vital for issues of nutrition, food security, and environmental sustainability."
The report says development in a sustainable way is important to ending poverty. The report also examines the problem of food insecurity, which affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. One in eight people are still chronically undernourished.
UN officials says somethings are clear. The Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Shamshad Akhtar, says world food production will have to increase by 70%, that increase will be needed to feed the additional 2.3 billion people expected on the planet by the middle of the century. She says an important part of meeting that need is to waste less food.
"There has to be efforts to reduce food wastage. Changes will have to take place in the food chain-production, storage, transportation and consumption."
Food and nutrition security are core elements of the sustainable development agenda.
And that's the Economics Report from VOA Learning English, I'm Mario Ritter.
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| absolutely | ['æbsəlu:tli] |
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| sanitation | [.sæni'teiʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 環境衛生(衛生設備，下水道設備) |
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| environment | [in'vaiərənmənt] |
想一想再看 n. 環境，外界 |
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| rural | ['ru:rəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 農村的 |
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| provincial | [prə'vinʃəl] |
想一想再看 n. 鄉下人，地方人民 |
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| additional | [ə'diʃənl] |
想一想再看 adj. 附加的，另外的 |
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| security | [si'kju:riti] |
想一想再看 n. 安全，防護措施，保證，抵押，債券，證券 |
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| dweller | ['dwelə] |
想一想再看 n. 居民 |
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| poverty | ['pɔvəti] |
想一想再看 n. 貧困，貧乏 |
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| sufficient | [sə'fiʃənt] |
想一想再看 adj. 足夠的，充分的 |
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