Sentences with phrase «of widespread hunger»

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Hundreds of millions of people live without electricity, Kerry said, and hunger and poverty is widespread throughout the country.

And, of course, it was these caps that led, in part, to widespread student complaints that portion sizes were too small to satisfy their hunger.

He said, «There is widespread disenchantment and indignation across the nation resulting from hunger and the inability of the Buhari Presidency to provide the people with basic necessities of life, which they had always enjoyed in the past.

«There is widespread disenchantment and indignation across the nation resulting from hunger and the inability of the Buhari Presidency to provide the people with basic necessities of life, which they had always enjoyed in the past.

«It was the perfect field,» I wrote, «the implementation of technology to treat a widespread problem like world hunger.»

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

Cooler climatic conditions and an excess of rain had led to failed crop harvests and widespread hunger, in addition to large numbers of people living in crowded — and already pathogen - filled — medieval cities.

According to Wilson, Darwin told his contemporaries «that their land - grabs in Africa, their hunger for stock - market wealth in the face of widespread urban poverty, their rigid class system and their everlasting wars were not things to be ashamed of, but actually part of the processes of nature».

Sponsors of the program hope widespread awareness of hunger will lead to widespread efforts to eliminate it.

Felling gives results of a recent survey indicating that U. S. teachers are worried about widespread hunger among students and its effects on learning.

Just as the erotica genre as a whole garnered widespread acceptance from both the industry and the readers following the popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy (Viking), Scholastic saw a surge in sales for both print and digital with the publication of the Hunger Games trilogy, aimed at young adult readers but enjoyed by crossover fans.

Led by the widespread interest in The Hunger Games trilogy in 2012, young adult book buyers 30 years old and over accounted for 51 % of units and 49 % of spending in the year, compared to 45 % of units and 44 % of spending in 2011.

His Campbell soup cans and Coke bottles speak a vernacular language anyone can understand; like Joseph Beuys» fat and felt, they resonated too with widespread memories of cold and hunger for a postwar generation.

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!

Before widespread acceptance of Bowlby's theory, psychologists viewed attachment as a secondary drive, derived from primary drives like hunger.