What's a poor person going to buy?

穷人会买那种呢
You see this across a lot of parts of the picture.

这幅图很能说明问题了
Let's talk about soaring world food prices.

接下来讲猛增的世界食品价格
I began by doing that little quiz

这在一开始的小测试上已经提到过了
where you all got the right answer,

而且你们也都答对了
that talked about what soaring world food prices would do--

即猛增的食品价格是会对营养不良
whether it would affect undernutrition, overnutrition, or both.

还是营养过剩造成影响亦或两者兼有
Well, we got the right answer, the answer is both.

我们已经知道正确答案即两种兼有
Let's talk about just how bad the problem is today.

我们要探讨的是现在这个问题的有多严峻
This is a world problem happening today and it's been taking place

这是个持续了两年的世界性问题
over the past two years, but 2008 has been particularly bad with this.

尤其在2008年最严重
2007 was very bad as well.

在2007年也很糟糕