As a result, he said the company was now looking towards imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from other countries to feed growing domestic Brazilian demand.
British settlers arrived in 1788, needing to feed a growing penal settlement to the south at Sydney Cove.
The figure plays a part in the debate about the world's ability to grow enough food to feed its growing population.
Other studies showed that even in the U.S. there would not be enough land to feed the growing U.S. population by the year 2000.
The herbicide-resistant alfalfa and sugar beet seeds under attack by activists are just the beginning of what will be necessary to feed a growing world: The U.N.
In a BBC Wales lecture in February, he spoke in favour of genetically-modified (GM) crops as an important component in future efforts to feed a growing world population.
Investors are warming up to technology that promises to produce healthier crop efficiently and promote local consumption, given the challenge of managing the existing land, water and other resources to feed a growing population worldwide.
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Growing crops to feed animals requires a lot more land, energy and fertilizer than growing them to feed people, he says: 70% of the land that was once Amazon rain forest is dedicated to grazing.
The amount of feed used for growing salmon is 44% of what it was in 1972.
It talks about complicated methods of making more spectrum available to feed our ever growing gadget habits.
And, this way, for the rest of his life -- be it in the fraternity house, his bachelor pad, or his family's home, as he frantically tries to feed his own growing offspring -- when he opens that front door, smiles at the delivery person, and smells the chicken and broccoli in brown sauce, the kid will think of me.
Crops are withering as a result of this historic drought and feed for livestock is growing ever more scarce and expensive.
One has to do with the acquisition of resources to feed the Chinese industrial machine and its growing consumer market.
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The purpose, Mr Sankoh's lieutenants explained, was to stop people from growing rice that might go to feed government troops.
Growing soyabeans which are then exported to feed pigs in North America and Europe is by no means a sustainable activity, nor is increasing ranchland to grow more beef.
"The challenge has to do more with genetics, and the right balance for this fast growing bird, " says Martin Humphries, Feed Sales Director for an English specialist poultry feed supplier.
There, a farmer ran afoul of his allowed wheat acreage under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 by growing additional wheat, not for sale, but to feed his family and his livestock.
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Everyone around Saddam understood that his need to hear only good news was constantly growing, and that it was in their best interest to feed that hunger.
The growing need for cheap fuel with which to generate electricity to feed the country's economic boom is stoking demand for oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
There are pilot-projects with fast-growing trees that can be pollarded for firewood, and drip-feed irrigation for saplings.
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How, for example, do these guys keep Koch Industries growing when deflation reigns in nearly all its businesses -- oil and gas, animal feed, cattle and petrochemicals?
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