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为什么要读the world in brief？引用翻译组 裸考过一笔经验贴中写的一段话：每天精读经济学人Espresso。Espresso相当于经济学人的微缩版，每周六天，每天五篇，给阅读经济学人提供了必要的背景知识。每天看有连贯性，如同看一部连续剧，而世界就是这个大舞台。
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02 本周封面解读 
This week’s cover is designed to shake the world out of its complacency. Amid the talk of a cost-of-living crisis, people have lost sight of a far more serious threat: a global food shortage. 
The war in Ukraine is battering a food system that is already weakened by covid-19, climate change and an energy shock. Ukraine has mined its waters to deter an assault, and Russia is blockading the port of Odessa. As a result, Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped and Russia’s are threatened. Together, the two countries supply 12% of traded calories. Here we have tanks scurrying over an ear of wheat like so many attacking insects. And next to it is a maize bomb.
However, war is just the trigger. Even before the invasion the World Food Programme had warned that 2022 would be a terrible year. As it happens, a brutal heatwave is scorching India, the world’s second-largest wheat producer; China, the largest, has said that, after rains delayed planting, this year’s crop may be its worst ever. Elusive rain threatens to sap yields in other breadbaskets, from America’s wheat belt to France’s Beauce region. The Horn of Africa is being ravaged by its worst drought in four decades. 
One way to capture this broader threat was a grim reaper standing in a field of wheat. More subtle and almost as menacing is the skull shimmering in a slice of toast. 
However, we felt that these two had the clearest focus. The shortage of food will have a grievous effect on the poor. Households in emerging economies spend about 25% of their budget on food—and in sub-Saharan Africa as much as 40%. The high cost of staples has already raised the number of people who cannot be sure of getting enough to eat by 440m, to 1.6bn. Nearly 250m are on the brink of famine. If, as is likely, the war drags on and supplies from Russia and Ukraine are limited, hundreds of millions more people could fall into poverty. Political unrest will spread, children will be stunted and people will starve.
If we wanted readers to think about the war, this was the image. However, some of us worried that these would inevitably be seen as miniature Russian tanks. Depicting people as insects dehumanises them. In the past it has led to atrocities. That gave us pause.
Instead, we concluded that we needed to step back. We have amended the sketch by mixing in ears of wheat, as if the crop is rotting and seed is turning into skulls. 


The crisis does indeed threaten to deepen. Ukraine had already shipped much of last summer’s crop before the war. Russia is still managing to sell its grain, despite added costs and risks for shippers. However, those Ukrainian silos that are undamaged by the fighting are full of corn and barley. Farmers have nowhere to store their next harvest, due to start in late June, which may therefore rot. And they lack the fuel and labour to plant the one after that. Russia, for its part, may not be able to secure supplies of the seeds and pesticides it usually buys from the European Union. 

Here is the same idea, with three stems–the version we opted for, partly because the wheat set against a blue sky has an echo of the Ukrainian flag. 

The scene is set for a blame game, in which the West condemns Mr Putin for his invasion and Russia says the crisis is the result of Western sanctions. This cover shows what will happen if the argument becomes an excuse for inaction. Mr Putin must not use food as a weapon. Shortages are not the inevitable outcome of war. World leaders should see hunger as a global problem urgently requiring a global solution.
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