Sentences with phrase «half of rural households»

Such as the fact that as of 2010, about half of rural households in America did not have internet access at home.

Money is going towards «hyper - fast» broadband, although some may be frustrated that millions of rural households still do not have good connectivity.

About 66 percent of rural households and 60 percent of urban households in the NSS count as undernourished.

Less than 20 per cent of our rural households have any printed material at home, other than religious books (let's say).

Some working cats are social and well - suited to a life lived outdoors or as companions to horses, making them a great addition to a variety of rural households.

The large majority of rural households in India still depend on fi re wood as their main energy source for cooking and to treat drinking water.

Besides, 25 % (45 million) of rural households across the country still have no electricity.

This suggests that the challenge of 100 % electrification can only be overcome through concerted improvements at various levels — not the least in the income levels of rural households and in the reliability of power supply.

During and after the climate related disasters the health condition of the rural households get adversely affected and hence, reduce the ability to employ themselves in economic activities and income of the households get adversely affected.

In China, tens of millions of rural households still burn coal directly inside their homes to cook.

Television was used to disseminate information on family planning throughout the country, taking advantage of the 70 percent of rural households with TV sets.

Not exact matches

In many cases, rural households don't have the necessary speeds to stream high - definition video or they're saddled with low monthly usage caps that don't play well with the heavy bandwidth demands that HD content such as House of Cards have.

There's a lot of talk about cord - cutting these days, but almost no mention of how the shift toward internet - delivered television might be affecting rural households.

Santa Fe is a tiny rural town — only about 20 households of expats live here, Mitzi says.

The average Chinese household lives on a quarter of the income that American and Western European households do, and standards of living remain very low in rural parts of the country, and across central and western China.

Nara, in association with Swades Foundation will commemorate the beginning of the Thai New Year, Songkran, by providing drinking water and water facilities to rural households in Raigad district of Maharashtra.

Smaller size and higher purchasing power of urban households compared to rural areas will give rise to new consumption trends.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.

The Attachment Parenting Movement has grown up with the technology able to demonstrate that children's brain development depends on the consistently loving interactions between parent and child, as well as the technology able to provide education and support to even the most rural of households.

«This is how the elders of the household (especially in rural areas) learn that she's pregnant,» says Sen.

Let Labour declare that in the most rural third of constituencies both in the country and in each of the 10 mainland regions outside London, unless one of its own MPs were seeking re-election, the Labour candidate would be drawn from a household in the social groups C2DE within the constituency, and at least preferably within the more rural half of wards.

While facilities for doorstep recycling of household waste are now widely available, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has noted there are fewer opportunities for recycling in public places.

Mr Henry Kerali, World Bank Country Director, who visited one of the project sites ahead of the harvesting at Tamaligu, described it as «the start of a dream come true» by boosting local production and increasing incomes for rural households.

This is largely as a result of the failure of some households in both rural and urban centers to construct such facilities in addition to their residential facilities.

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

The rural district has a population of 211,683 people, with average household earnings around $ 100 per year.

Each of these long - lasting insecticide - treated nets (LLINs) costs only around $ 10 to produce, transport and distribute to households in rural Africa.

«This form of government investment will hardly eradicate or reduce rural poverty, because of poor infrastructure and the severe economic inefficiencies of most agrarian settlements — which often result in high household - level turnover and giving - up rates of newly settled farmers following the local liquidation of natural forest resource capital.»

But connecting poor rural households is the least of the problem.

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham studied 119 children in rural Alabama and 414 of their household contacts, tracking the path of S. mutans.

«Our findings show that children, particularly those under the age of 10, experience a protective effect against IBD if they live in a rural household.

«People living in rural households have lower risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease.»

«Migration [is] one of several options rural households face when they confront diminishing livelihoods such as a decline in crop yields.»

Living in rural households decreases a person's risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly for young children and adolescents, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and the Canadian Gastro - Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC).

Annet Abenakyo Mulema, social scientist in gender at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), intends to apply some of the same methods to help rural families understand household and community gender dynamics and their role in managing the families» goats, sheep, and other livestock.

«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.

As I was a young film fan growing up in a VCR-less household in rural England, my access to international cinema was limited to whatever was playing on the (then) four channels of network television.

Instead, the senator proposes to change adolescence one family at a time by extolling America as it was in many rural and small - town households at the midpoint of the 20th century.

12, started Anseye Pou Ayiti because she says her native country lacks a datadriven, culturally relevant system for recruiting and training highcaliber teachers where they are most needed — in rural and underserved areas where about 70 percent of Haitians live but fewer than 30 percent of children from low - income households will complete even...

Vision Statement: To provide top quality Pork for healthy living of people all over the world and fighting rural household poverty through piggery in Uganda.

In 23 states a majority of rural students are in low - income households, compared to 16 states in 2013.

It's always been hard to get ahead in the largely poor and rural state of Mississippi, where the median household income is the lowest in the U.S..

«More principals find it challenging to maintain an adequate supply of effective teachers in urban schools and in schools» where two - thirds or more of the students come from low - income households (60 percent vs. 43 percent in suburban schools and 44 percent in rural schools).

Austen herself, living in rural Hertfordshire, mentions in a letter the black servant of a neighboring household; these servants were often freed slaves, brought over from the family's estates in the Caribbean.

The government says the HST reduction will save the typical Ontario household about $ 130 a year, and projects additional savings of about $ 540 a year for some rural electricity customers.

These government programs are meant to open up more pathways to homeownership for first - time buyers, veterans, and heads of households in rural areas.

What every dog owner should know, especially if you live in a rural area with a mixed household of cats and dogs is that if your dog walks through a nepeta (catmint) field, you should wash your dog's paws immediately with soapy water.

Donkeys, mules, and horses are used for transportation while over 50 % of households depend on cattle as their largest source of rural income.

In the midst of rural South Carolina lies Allendale County, the 2nd poorest county in the state (average household income $ 25,327) and -LSB-...]

In the midst of rural South Carolina lies Allendale County, the 2nd poorest county in the state (average household income $ 25,327) and 22nd poorest in the entire United States.