Sentences with phrase «on rural populations»

«We expect countries with young populations, supportive regulations and fast mobile Internet speeds and planned migration to 5G to be best positioned,» says Graseck, adding that banks serving urban populations may have more latitude to consolidate branches than those focused on rural populations.

Not exact matches

But the agency said the latest proposed steps are meant to further alleviate the rules» effects on community institutions and rural populations.

For most types of growth, the population density of a business owner's region (urban, rural, or suburban) didn't have any impact on their growth plans.

But in the United States, the uprooting of the rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.

In its current commitment to the development of its rural population, it can place emphasis on «Food First.»

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...

More than half of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.

Moreover, our intervention sites were hospitals and affiliated polyclinics matched on a number of characteristics including geographical region and urban vs rural status, and the study sample is representative of general population of Belarus.

This is due to the fact that rural voters tend to be more conservative, and are perhaps, over-represented strictly based on population.

Furthermore, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) project further 16 per cent rural population growth by 2028.

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.

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

Engaging in a dialogue with rural populations on the ground is key.

Almost uniformly, in every country on Earth, the larger the population of a metropolitan area or the rural equivalent, the more productive it is per capita, and the lower its population is, the less productive it is per capita.

+ / - 62 %: rural population directly dependent on wild nature and its services for survival (the most of any continent)

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Ira Longini, a modeler at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues simulated an imaginary population of 500,000 people in a rural part of the country; Michael Ferguson of Imperial College London built a model based on the 85 million people living in Thailand and a 100 - kilometer - wide border zone in neighboring countries.

Yet vast numbers of the rural population live on the brink of starvation, unable to find a patch of land of their own to cultivate.

Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute is central Pennsylvania's only comprehensive cancer center, with a special research emphasis on cancer - producing behaviors that are more prevalent among an underserved rural population.

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It's most compelling, and often frustrating, as a portrait of a rural Inuit population that relies on sustainable seal hunting for food, community and economic survival.

With immigrant populations in rural and small - town America on the rise, the answer, increasingly, is everywhere.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

In rural Nebraska, we passed a town that stated on its sign, population 12.

Libraries serving populations over 50,000 allocate more to ebooks, and suburban libraries focus more on ebooks and DVD / Blu - rays than their urban or rural counterparts.

was determined to be rural prior to October 1, 1990 and whose population after the 1990 decennial Census did not exceed 25,000 (this provision may be changed — either to update it when data from the 2000 Census become available or, as proposed in Congress in 2000, to maintain eligibility based on the 1980 Census through 2010).

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Primarily focusing on depicting different social classes, especially the population of rural England, he has created strong satirical shots that may serve as an anthropological study of sorts.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of anotheOn Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of anotheon a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

At stake is India's ability to bring electricity to 400 million rural residents — a third of the population — as well as keep the lights on at corporate office towers and provide enough fuel for 1.5 million new vehicles added to the roads each month.

If we adopt the ABS classification on urban and rural dwellings (the ABS defines urban areas to be those with 1000 or more people), the change of rate is even less pronounced over a similar timeframe: the proportions of rural dwellings in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania in 1961 were 16 %, 15 %, and 33 %, only slightly decreasing to 11 %, 11 %, and 29 % in 2006 (dwelling data are contained in the census of population and housing and are available from the ABS).

70 % of the rural population are reliant on traditional rain - fed agriculture — for both food and livelihood.

The focus of the paper is on the agricultural sector, where the impacts of climate change have the potential to disrupt the livelihoods of rural populations in many regions and where adaptation must be given urgent consideration.

Here's an amazing development tool that will map houses in rural areas and, using an algorithm that draws on population density and other data, show the most rational way to link them into a network of solar home systems and minigrids.

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.

Following examples set forth by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and firms like Golden Hope Plantations Berhad, a Malaysian palm oil producer, oil palm can be cultivated in a manner that helps mitigate climate change, preserves biodiversity, and brings economic opportunities to desperately poor rural populations.

Asia is predominantly agrarian, with 58 % of its population living in rural areas, of which 81 % are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Over 80 % of Uganda's population is rural and dependent on rain fed agriculture, which is prone to impacts of climate variability.

Rural populations have been displaced from their land by conflict, drought and flooding, and coupled with economic decline this has caused pressures on food security and resultant hunger.

Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.

However arbitrary designations of urban versus rural does not address the effects of growing population on the landscape.

In India, 75 percent of the rural population still relies on dung for cooking, despite a push by the Indian government and international agencies to replace it with liquefied petroleum gas.

This technical document highlights the importance of water management, as growing populations, expanding cities and unsustainable natural resource management are increasing water stress on rural communities, while climate change and shocks are exacerbating flooding, landslides and saltwater intrusion into freshwater systems.

«As Honduras» biggest aid donor, the US should help bring an end to the bloody crackdown on Honduras» rural population,» said Billy Kyte.

[Response: The effect diminishes with the size of town, it is actually larger than corrections based on population rises, and it gives results that are regionally coherent and you have yet to show that any objective subsampling of the rural stations makes any difference.

Sunlabob Rural Energy Rents Out Solar PV Systems Such a model is now being employed with success in Laos to bring a variety of solar products to a country where 74 % of the population lives on less than $ 2 per day, and only 48 % are connected to the electric grid.

Born out of the Monroe and North Brunswick townships on February 28, 1860, East Brunswick grew from a rural farming community to become New Jersey's center of population according to the 2000 Census.

So, the rural lawyer population is dwindling and there is a legal desertification creeping across small town USA — so what, it can't be that big a deal what with the internet, on - line legal services and all.