Anti-tobacco plan, Tate Modern's new director 印度限制煙草生產的計劃、泰特現代藝術館新任館長

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India’s farmers fight anti-tobacco plan 印度農民不支持削減煙草產量的計劃

Tate Modern’s first female director 英國泰特現代美術館首位女性負責人

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India is one of the world’s biggest tobacco producers, but is under pressure to cut back. It’s the effect of a global anti-tobacco campaign led by the World Health Organization. The government has raised taxes and introduced a cap on production. The farmers are being asked to switch to other crops, but the returns are poor. Tobacco farming supports the livelihoods of 45 million Indians. For them it’s a question of their survival.

印度是世界最大的煙草制造國之一，但如今印度的煙草產業正面臨縮減的壓力。壓力來自於世界衛生組織的全球性反煙草倡議。政府已經提升稅收，並對煙草產量提出瞭限額。這些煙草農民被要求轉種其它農作物，但這樣一來他們的收益將變得很低。有四千五百萬印度人依靠煙草種植業維持生計。對他們來說，這是個關乎生存的問題。

Tate Modern – the most visited museum of modern art in the world. It is the crown jewel in the Tate empire, built over the past three decades by Sir Nicholas Serota, who recently stood down as the institution’s director. His replacement is Maria Balshaw – one of the forces behind Manchester’s recent cultural renaissance and this institution’s first female boss. The ambitious target to attract a more ethnically and socially diverse range of visitors is clear. The collection agenda is bold.

英國泰特現代藝術館是全球訪客最多的現代藝術博物館，也是泰特企業的核心部分，它由尼古拉斯·賽羅塔爵士在三十年間一手建成，他最近從負責人這一職位上退瞭下來。接替他的是前不久推動曼徹斯特文化復興的重要人物之一 — 瑪麗亞·巴爾肖，她是該機構的首位女老板。巴爾肖雄心勃勃，目標很明確 — 要吸引更多的擁有多元種族和社會背景的參觀者。她提出的有關館藏的議程非常大膽。