Some agronomists think that, with enough investment, Ethiopia will be able to feed itself.

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With food production per capita declining, the country has to rely on food imports to feed itself.

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Despite the increase in organic production, problems remain for Cuba's agricultural system and ability to feed itself with local produce.

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Syria is finding it increasingly difficult to feed itself.

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Whether epic or merely annoying, when does the January panic begin to feed on itself?

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And dereliction tends to feed on itself.

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It begins to feed on itself.

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If anything, the tendency towards smaller, more socially successful families tends to feed back on itself over the generations, and the contribution of the K-selected to the gene pool therefore shrinks.

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Mr Simon pointed out that India, once seen by Malthusians as a hopeless case, fated to be increasingly hungry, could now feed itself.

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Yet even in doing so, it will not be enough unless the USC community commits itself to resisting the urge to feed its own vanity.

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While LulzSec has kept a very active Twitter feed, Sony itself has gone quiet after being subjected to a string of cyber attacks in the last two months.

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The EcoBot II powers itself in much the same way as animals feed themselves to get their energy, he said.

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The energy concerns of the future have also been taken into account with grand schemes of super-fast charging batteries supplied ultimately by solar or wind power connected to the stacking stations that could even feed back into the energy grid of the city itself.

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Without a much improved ratio of manufacturing to services and the dramatic improvement which that would bring to overall unemployment, the current recession will be much prolonged and will probably "feed back" unto itself as factors that defined the original downturn, such as credit defaults and mortgage delinquencies, recur.

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"When you add the international dimension to this, all of these factors feed into the mindset of our youth, and it's demonstrating itself in this outrageous behavior, " Abdullah added.

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It leaves mostly the hope that somehow or other the inflow of cash and artificial stimulus last year jump-started confidence enough to feed a continuation of the recovery on its own, and that this is only a minimum pause to collect itself.

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