Sentences with phrase «lacks access to land»

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Those policies include giving access to free land to select businesses (there is no land ownership in China), offering below - market loans, the near total lack of environmental standards, and policies that suppress wage growth.

According to the ex-president: «There is no lack of willingness to engage in agriculture by women» but observed factors such as male - dominated land holding systems and lack of access to finance for agricultural production among others, have limited the participation of women in the agric sector.

Israel's practices in the Jordan Valley are a case in point: settlers monopolise access to water and grow scores of palm trees for dates; and they also farm fish, grow passion fruit, bananas, etc. — on deprived land where locals lack the ability to farm for themselves.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.

Even in this land of plenty, «food insecurity» — a lack of access to quality, nutritious food — plagued more than 50 million Americans in 2009, the highest reported figure since the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began tracking such numbers in 1995.

Even in this land of plenty, «food insecurity» — a lack of access to quality, nutritious food — plagued more than 50 million Americans in 2009, the highest reported...

Like women, indigenous environmental defenders often face more risks due to their marginalization, proximity to remaining contested lands, and historical lack of political legitimacy and access to monetary resources.

But behind this aromatic export lies a community of farmers and families that face huge daily challenges — including lack of access to safe water and widespread deforestation of their land.

Unnecessary red tape, inefficient permitting processes and lack of access to federal lands have made American energy production more expensive for -LSB-...]

Young farmers often lack long - term access to land they can invest in.

The lack of access to traditional lands, waters and natural resources could diminish our ability to care for country and to maintain culture.

... As land access is crucial to project planning and funding, this lack of ability by the State to provide unencumbered land is a major weakness in efforts to attract investment... [I] t is not sensible to allow obstacles to be placed before the owner of a resource, as that owner may have alternatives elsewhere, where land is not an issue.

It is difficult for remote Indigenous peoples to obtain teaching qualifications because of the lack of training facilities in remote areas and the fact that potential trainee teachers must leave family and ancestral lands to access formal education.

Among them, he cited a lack of access to lands and loans, municipalities» definitions of minimum habitable structure sizes, and social pressures: «People can get very defensive and social pressures can make the shift to living a simple life in a Tiny House very difficult with some people.

These negative factors include policy uncertainty (particularly relating to finance and taxes), lack of builder and land developer credit, and mortgage access for prospective home buyers.