Sentences with phrase «of urban poor»

The situation of the urban poor is precarious in the present context of volatile food prices and the financial, fuel and economic crises.

Examples include the Study on the impacts of rising food prices on the food security of the urban poor (in 5 cities / regions for IDRC and UN Habitat), Assistance to FAO for the Technical Consultation on Food, Agriculture and Cities and the Scoping paper on urban agriculture for UNEP and the Assistance to China - Europe on urban agriculture in face of the food crisis.

For example, situation analysis and design / implementation / monitoring of small projects with groups of urban poor / women was supported in 20 cities as part of the

This video reports on «low space, no space» technologies applied in the AULNA project in Antananarivo, Madagascar to improve food security and income of the urban poor, and on the integration of urban agriculture in urban land use planning in order to reduce the impacts of climate change in this city, notably flooding.

For example, situation analysis and design / implementation / monitoring of small projects with groups of urban poor / women was supported in 20 cities as part of the Cities Farming for the Future Programme.

Next to food security, urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion of the urban poor and women in particular, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (see below for further explanations and examples).

The vacant land (that might be land that is earmarked for other uses but not yet in use as such or land that is not fit for construction e.g. flood zones, land under power lines, etcetera, or buffer zones and land reserves for future use) is given in short or medium term lease to organized groups of urban poor for gardening purposes (multi annual purposive specific leaseholds or occupancy licenses).

Various cities, like Cienfuegos (Cuba), Piura (Peru) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) have made an inventory of the available vacant open land within the city (using methods like community mapping and / or GIS) and analysed its suitability for use in agriculture, which creates a good starting point for enhancing access, especially of the urban poor, to land for urban farming.

Also the city of Cagayan d'Oro, the Philippines, assists associations of the urban poor in the establishment of allotment gardens on privately owned land, which proves to be a successful strategy.

Food production in the city is in many cases a response of the urban poor to inadequate, unreliable and irregular access to food, and the lack of purchasing power.

An important aspect of strategic urban planning is related to the participation of the urban poor themselves in the analysis of the situation, in the definition of priorities and in action planning and implementation.

the number of urban poor is rapidly increasing.

It briefly presents the Mayor's Task Force on Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor, launched in 2009 with the aim to better understand these issues, and provides recommended actions to build resilience of the urban poor.

Media hysteria and scapegoating of the urban poor combined to make the pit bull an easy target.

An example of an organization that has committed its resources to the service of the urban poor is Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN).

Moe finds that close to 80 percent of the urban poor in his survey have no clue what vouchers are.

Except for sporadic reports, Zika is a disease of the urban poor.

Is there a real doubt that the vast majority of urban poor vote democratic whether it is in their interest or not?

He spoke out on the Irish question, opposed military adventures of imperial Britain, and cared deeply about the plight of the urban poor, especially neglected and mistreated children.

He goes on to describe recent debates about the homeless and the underclass, meaning the most disordered of the urban poor.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

She viewed the suffering of the urban poor in apocalyptic terms and vowed to usher in a different realm.

Not exact matches

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

Also from the FHWA, we used the percentage of rural and urban interstate miles in poor condition.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

A liberal US Jew using his status as a Jew to sweep into Israel, bash the security measures while bemoaning the status of the poor Palestnians and then go back to his Ivory Tower in a large urban liberal city where his biggest concern is whether the Starbucks will get his latte order correct.

Amy L. Sherman is Director of Urban Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcoming).

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

The urban poor, many of whom are children of tenants and sharecroppers forced off the land by mechanization, should be offered government assistance to purchase land and training to learn how to work it.

For example, `' Low levels of food consumption and malnutrition are also hitting the urban poor in rich countries.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

So I guess among all this discussion of the Protestant urban Social Gospel churches, it's not relevant to mention that the Catholic Church (despite its many sins) has always been an advocate of this «Social Gospel» feed - the - poor idea?

Wilfred is a poor administrator and has none of Urban's social graces.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

Jack is a poor speaker, Wilfred's decisions are usually bad, and much of the order seems mired in a complacency that may cause it to fold — the success of the retreat clearly is due almost exclusively to Urban.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

But today's urban poor are isolated, alone, without community... This process of marginalization is filled with contradictions.

He has even shared with the rural peasant class in his denouncement against the Herodian urban culture 84 that deprived the poor of their means of livelihood and marginalized them even as the urban centers enjoyed the fruit of their labor.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Even now the problem of developing a sustainable agriculture in order that future generations may eat does not grip the mind as does the problem of justice for the urban poor.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.

Now this has to be beyond window - dressing of doing drive - by ministry «to» and «among» the urban poor, immigrants, and the rich, racially - ethnic diversity of the global church present in urban centers.

Our view of Spirit - filled people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished urban poor.

Here we find the stories of the Jungshindae (the «comfort women»), the war widows, and the workers, peasants and urban poor, exposing the nature of the political powers in the modern Korea.

Katz cites William Julius Wilson and others who say that the decline of manufacturing has deprived the urban poor of employment.