New Zealand-based authors Robert and Brenda Vale base their findings on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets ranging from budgerigars to cats and dogs.

新西兰作家罗伯特和布伦达·威尔通过研究种植宠物（涉及范围从鹦鹉到猫和狗）食物所需的土地数量，得出这项研究结果。

It is an established fact that, on average, it takes a significantly larger area of land to grow food for a meat-eating individual than for a vegetarian person.

一般而言，为供养一个食肉者而种植粮食所占土地的面积要明显大于一个素食主义者的，这是已定的事实。

Foreign investment in African land is growing. Countries like China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are leasing or buying millions of hectares to grow food for their people.

对非洲土地的外商投资持续增加。中国、沙特和韩国等国家租赁或购买了数百万公顷土地为本国人民种植粮食。

Voice 2: Second, Slow Food taught people about traditional farming. Traditional farming does not use chemicals to grow food. And traditional farmers treat their animals with care.

声音2：第二，慢食运动让人们了解传统农业。传统农业不使用化学物质种植粮食。传统农民对待动物很小心。

Present methods of producing biofuels from crops have been criticised for causing high food prices by taking up land that would have been used to grow food.

人们广泛批评现行用农作物生产生物燃料的做法，原因是这一方法占用了种植庄稼的土地，从而推高了食物价格。

There just is not enough room to grow food for all these people even though British agriculture is the most mechanised in the world.

尽管在世界上英国的农业机械化程度最高，但它没有足够的土地种植庄稼来养活那么多人。

One of the more ambitious projects is a 6, 000-square-foot roof farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which will grow food for local restaurants and shops.

一个更加雄心勃勃的项目是在布鲁克林区的绿点市建一个6000平方英尺的屋顶农场，这将为当地的餐馆和商店提供食品。

While this fuels new economic engines such as services and industry, it also undercuts resources needed to grow food.

尽管这助燃了新的经济发动机如服务业和工业，但它也减少了种植粮食所需的资源。

We can see real changes having to take place on how we grow food for our basic dietary needs.

我们可以看见变化真的发生在我们为了基本饮食需求而种植的作物上。

Water helps us stay clean, cook and grow food.

谁能够帮助我们清洁、做饭以及种植粮食。