Sentences with phrase «as rural poverty»

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But since then I've been drawn back again and again by her unique point of view, as exhibited in posts like «Growing Into Authority,» «10 Reasons Rural Ministry is Great,» and «The Reality of Rural Poverty,» I've even been reading her series on Reformed Theology!

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

When poverty is chosen, when it is a voluntary status, undertaken for some moral or religious end, it is often a state of joy rather than of suffering, as in the case of Thoreau at Walden, the Peace Corps worker, or the inhabitant of a rural commune.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

Former President Bill Clinton, recognised for his poverty alleviation and rural development efforts, recognised coffee as a pillar of rural development during his participation in the 1st World Coffee Producers Forum that took place in Medellín, Colombia, 10 - 12 July.

Both FAO and IRRI are actively promoting more sustainable rice practices throughout the value chain - production, marketing and consumption - to optimize its nutritional properties and as a means of improving livelihoods and tackling poverty, particularly in rural areas.

She has served as an advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, as well as to the Tennessee Commission on Aging, the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, the Appalachian Rural Science Initiative of the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieAs the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieas well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and familieas rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

Identifying poverty and a race - wide issue, not just affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the community.

Claire Perry uses her maiden speech to highlight rural poverty as George Hollingbery and Hariett Baldwin raise the plight of pensioners in poverty

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

The government - backed effort, known as the Grain - for - Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest in an effort to prevent erosion and alleviate rural poverty.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

Investing in healthy land can generate multiple benefits required under the SDGs, such as food, water and energy security, poverty eradication, resilience of rural communities and ecosystem restoration.

Given the title «looper,» young Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) arrives in a rural field outside of the poverty - stricken city every day and waits for his victims to appear, executing them with a quick shot from his enormous gun (referred to here as his «blunderbuss») and tossing them into an incinerator.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and urban areas of higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel poverty levels as high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.

Really it is certain types of public schools are failing such as high poverty rural and urban schools.

Across the country, states and school districts experience a critical shortage of teachers, especially in hard - to - staff subjects, such as science, technology, and math, and in hard - to - staff schools, such as those in high - poverty and rural areas.

«Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts — high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan districts.

In central Louisiana, as in many rural, high - poverty areas across the country, just getting qualified teachers into classrooms is a challenge.

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

Highly Qualified Teachers Enrolled in Programs Providing Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification or Licensure (2015) summarizes state - and district - level data on the numbers of full - time equivalent (FTE) highly qualified teachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school districts.

Budge also serves as an associate professor in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department, where her research and scholarly activity focuses on educational leadership, leadership development, rural education, school improvement, and poverty.

March / April 2018: Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Frontier — This issue will shine a light on various types of school communities, providing strategies for universal challenges such as parent engagement, afterschool and summer learning, technology and broadband connectivity, teacher recruiting and retention, poverty, and wrap - around services.

Currently, there is a lot of media attention to actual and projected teacher shortages in particular fields, such as special education, and in particular geographical locations, such as rural and urban schools, serving students living in poverty.

IARSS has proven experience with high poverty, large surban school districts as well as small rural community school districts.

And via improved WiFi availability and otherwise, we could make digital library books more accessible than now for students and others in high - poverty neighborhoods and remote rural areas — «book deserts,» as some call them.

Similarly, there is a private individual need for these lower - cost services, as pet overpopulation is a staggering problem in the Southeast and poverty in rural areas can be very high.

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

Often lacking diverse economic systems, several rural Eastern European communities suffer major poverty and loss as a result of lost logistics contracts from major global industries.

Photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke - White brought public attention to rural poverty with their widely disseminated photographs, such as Lange's iconic Migrant Mother (1936).

Biochar, the modern version of an ancient Amazonian agricultural practice called Terra Preta (black earth), is gaining widespread credibility as a way to address world hunger, climate change, rural poverty, deforestation, and energy shortages... SIMULTANEOUSLY!

Rather than blame Fairtrade for falling short in one study, consumers need to take responsibility to pressure «companies and governments to do more to effectively tackle poverty and to achieve sustainable rural transitions of benefit to all segments of rural society, as well as protecting the environment for all our sakes» (NRI).

As is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often associated with affluence, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areaAs is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often associated with affluence, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areaas they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often associated with affluence, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areaas heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areas.

As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).

The document highlights climate change as one of a number of new elements in the global environment that must be considered for rural poverty reduction.

This analytical report tackles participatory mapping as a contribution to addressing conflict - related issues and improving community ownership in sustainable natural resource management for enhanced rural poverty reduction.

All climate - related impacts will be mediated by the vulnerability of rural people living in poverty, isolation, or with lower literacy etc., but also by factors that give rural communities resilience to climate change, such as indigenous knowledge, and networks of mutual support.

This manual roots for natural resources as the foundation from which rural poor people can overcome poverty.

Criminal activity in Honduras» forests is stripping the country of its natural wealth, deepening poverty in rural areas, and causing violent social unrest, as forest communities are pitted against timber gangs.

As with health centres, schools in rural areas are disproportionately affected by energy poverty, notes the report.

Very few rural communities have lawyers or courts, and some communities in urban centers such as Anchorage and Fairbanks face high unemployment and poverty.

People living in rural, remote and regional areas are affected by wider policies that entrench poverty and punitive approaches for people already doing it tough (such as plans for drug testing of Centrelink recipients), as well as more general determinants of health such as structural racism.