Sentences with phrase «reduce food poverty»

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According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

Agri - food MSMEs are crucial in both wealthy and low and middle - income countries (LMICs) in addressing food security, meeting growing demand for agricultural commodities and value - added foodstuffs, and in reducing poverty by generating income through strategies of inclusive growth.

José Graziano da Silva, director general, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), urged governments in the Asia and Pacific region to sharpen their focus on achieving Zero Hunger by reducing rural poverty

FoodCycle is a charity working to reduce food waste and food poverty in communities across the UK by serving healthy, meat - free meals for people in need.

This means retailers can meet their food waste reduction goals and also help charities to alleviate poverty and reduce food insecurity.

To meet the world's growing food security needs and face the parallel challenges of improving nutrition and reducing poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.

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The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

Plan Zheroes aims to tackle this issue by building relationships between food businesses and charities to ensure surplus food goes those who need it and waste and poverty is reduced.

Through harmonization, they envisaged fewer barriers to trade and a freer movement of food products among countries, which would be to the benefit of farmers and their families and would also help to reduce hunger and poverty.

The Trust warned that this was only a partial picture of food poverty, and concluded that the rise was due in large part to the impact of government austerity policies that have either reduced or delayed benefit payments.

Successful, cost - effective federal nutrition programs play a critical role in reducing child poverty and helping children access healthy foods while improving their overall health, development, and school achievement.

Breastfeeding plays an important role in reducing poverty (SDG 1); addressing food safety, nutrition, and insecurity (SDG 2); promoting the general health and well - being of families (SDG 3); and creating sustainable consumption patterns (SDG 12).

SNAP, known as the Food Supplement Program in Maryland, provides monthly benefits to over 650,000 Marylanders to purchase food, and plays a critical role in reducing hunger and poveFood Supplement Program in Maryland, provides monthly benefits to over 650,000 Marylanders to purchase food, and plays a critical role in reducing hunger and povefood, and plays a critical role in reducing hunger and poverty.

Two other accompanying white papers describe the critical role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal Child Nutrition Programs in alleviating poverty, reducing food insecurity, and improving nutrition, health, and well - being.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

The programme was instituted by the Government last year to reduce poverty, create jobs and increase food supply.

«Leading efforts to reduce extreme poverty, food insecurity, and preventable deaths with initiatives such as Feed the Future and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.»

Speaking at the handing over ceremony at Yikene, the Upper East Regional Minister, James Zuugah Tiigah commended the company for the innovative initiative which will go a long way to ensure food security and further reduce poverty among over 200 households.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

«This is a momentous achievement, which will allow AfricaRice to invigorate its effort to reach the common objectives of improving food security and reducing poverty in Africa, through advances in rice research and training of rice breeders,» stated Dr Roy - Macauley, Director General of AfricaRice on the occasion of the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding in late 2016

The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.

During the 2017 Maryland General Assembly session, Maryland Hunger Solutions and our partners across the state are working to reduce poverty and food insecurity by advocating for the passage of the following bills:

This program helps people below the poverty level that has public assistance, such as Food Stamps, Medicaid, or Public Housing, and helps reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets in the Coastal Bend.

We can avoid the worst climate - change scenarios while also lifting people out of poverty, growing food more efficiently, and saving lives by reducing pollution.

Forests provide essential services in reducing poverty, providing energy and ensuring food security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisatfood security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN's Food and Agriculture OrganisatFood and Agriculture Organisation.

These can enable the transport systems of developing countries to play their part in the attainment of national goals: to develop economies, to create jobs, to reduce poverty and inequality, to produce more food, to improve health and education, and in general to ensure that citizens can live healthy and satisfying lives.

The RUAF Foundation seeks to contribute to reducing urban poverty, enhancing urban food security, improving urban environmental management and stimulating participatory city governance.

Urban agriculture provides a complementary strategy to reduce urban poverty and food insecurity and enhance urban environmental management.

On the demand side of the food equation, there are four pressing needs — to stabilize world population, eradicate poverty, reduce excessive meat consumption, and reverse biofuels policies that encourage the use of food, land, or water that could otherwise be used to feed people.

On the demand side of the food equation, there are four pressing needs — to stabilize world population, eradicate poverty, reduce excessive meat consumption, and reverse biofuels policies that encourage the use of grain to produce fuel for cars.

About Blog The mission is to reduce or eliminate the devastating consequences of local and global poverty characterized by a lack of food, clean water, homelessness, illiteracy, sickness, despair, hopelessness, voicelessness, fear, abuse, and social isolation.

These statistics include state - level data on poverty, participation in SNAP (3SquaresVT), TANF (Reach Up), Medicaid (Dr. Dynasaur), the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Program, and households with food insecurity.