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
Food prices have gone up around the world.

全世界的食品价格都在上涨
Let's talk about why that's happening, what the impact is,

我们要讨论的是其发生的原因和影响
and what might be done about it.

以及针对这一问题的对策
There was an excellent photo and journalistic series

在华盛顿邮报上刊登的
in The Washington Post on this, and they have a photo gallery

一组照片和系列新闻报道非常棒
that you can access at the website that I've listed below.

这些照片库可以通过下面的网址阅读
Here are some of the pictures that they have.

这是其中一些照片
So this was food riots in Bangladesh brought about

由于食品价格上涨饮食得不到保障
by the rising food prices and people not being able to secure food;

引发了孟加拉国的粮食暴动
cooking oil shortages in China.

中国食用油短缺