The food supplies are inadequate to meet the needs of the hungry.
食物供应还不足以应付饿民的需求。
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That supplies 80 percent of what is consumed, so even covering the whole country in livestock farms wouldn't allow us to cover all our meat and dairy needs.
这提供了80%的消耗量，因此，即使将牲畜养殖场覆盖到整个国家，也不能完全满足我们肉类和乳制品需求。
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Today, rivers are controlled for many reasons, primarily to maintain reliable water supplies for daily, agricultural and industrial needs, for power generation, for navigation, and to prevent flooding.