Not because there was not enough food -- because there was actually a surplus of food in the fertile regions of the south parts of the country -- but because in the north, people could not access or entitle themselves to that food.
并不是因为当时没有足够的食物 而是因为 在国家南部的富饶地区实际上食物过剩了， 但是在北部的人们却无法获取 或者没有权利获得那些过剩的食物。