file;unicode	channel;int	start;float	end;float	speaker;unicode	speakerType;unicode	speakerDialect;unicode	transcript;unicode	section;int	turn;int	segment;int	sectionType;unicode	suType;unicode
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The day before yesterday, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization encouraged farmers and governments to obtain a good harvest in 2008 in order to alleviate the escalating food crisis at a time when the price of rice in the United States has increased to a new record high.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	This resulted in riots in a number of African countries, as well as in Indonesia and Haiti.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The FAO warned that 37 countries are facing a food crisis but its director-general, Jacques Diouf, said that solutions are available.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	In a press conference in Paris the day before yesterday, he said that this is not a Greek tragedy where the gods decide the fate and humans can't do anything.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	He added that it is a good thing that international organizations are helping the poor to access food, but from our side we need to engage in the most important battle of the day, which is making the 2008 harvest a success.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The European Union Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, said in Tokyo today that the World Trade Organization should pay the countries that produce food to maintain exports in order to avoid a worsening of the world food crisis.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Some countries warned against exporting basic food supplies in an effort to avoid having a shortage.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Mandelson said in an interview that if we restrict trade we will simply add food scarcity to the big problems of food shortage that already exist in many countries.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	They need to exercise their pressures and their influences to reduce fees and then to encourage trade.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	They also have to confront the export restrictions and export taxes that will curb the free flow of trade in food supplies and agricultural products.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	In Chicago, the rice paddies contracts [written] in July (July) rose the day before yesterday 203% to reach a record high of 24.85 dollars for every 100 pounds.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Kenji Kobayashi, the grain affairs expert at Kanitso Corporation for Assets Management in Tokyo, said that some of the main exporting countries placed restrictions on exports. This combined with the decrease in world stockpiles, resulted in increases in the rice price.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	India and Vietnam, which were the second and third largest exporters of rice in the world in 2007, respectively, restricted the export of rice in an effort to maintain local prices.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The Asian Bank for Development criticized these restrictions on exports saying that the Asian governments are exaggerating their reaction to the price hike by taking measures that restrict the freedom of the market.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Diouf said that the FAO, which is based in Rome, has been warning against this danger for years.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	He added that the situation that we are in now is the result of inappropriate policies that have been pursued for the past twenty years.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	In the period between 1990 and 2000 we reduced the food donations... by half.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	He added that the generous agricultural support in rich countries also stymied agriculture in the developing countries, which exacerbated the problem.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	German consultant Angela Merkel encouraged countries of the world on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to reduce the inflation of food prices, and said that this issue will be raised during the next G8 summit, which is scheduled for July in Japan.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Afghanistan is struggling, and it is really one of the poorest countries in the world because of the increase in food prices.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	An official spokesperson said that the government of President Hamid Karzai has allocated 50 million dollars to buy food supplies from neighboring countries.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The presidential spokesperson Humayun Hamidzada said, "We will make sure that we have enough food supplies in our markets so that we can avoid a humanitarian tragedy."	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	However, many Afghanis were not influenced by these statements and blamed the government for the increase in prices.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	Kamal Al-Din Khan, who went out to the market in Kabul today, asked what should we eat.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	(Mr Karzai sits in his palace and doesn't know what's going on regarding the price hike.)	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	In Latin America, the leaders of four leftist countries vowed the day before yesterday to work together to plant more harvests, and blamed capitalism and [risky behavior] for the increase in the world prices.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The presidents of Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and the vice president of Cuba, launched a fund with 100 million dollars to finance the planting of basic harvests like rice, beans, and corn to alleviate the burden of the big increase in the grain prices in the world.	0	0	0		
QDS_ARB_20080425.0063	0	0.000	1000.000	speaker	unknown	unknown	The leaders said that the increase in prices resulted largely from the policy of making ethanol fuel from corn in the United States.	0	0	0