Sentences with phrase «rural households»

Money is going towards «hyper - fast» broadband, although some may be frustrated that millions of rural households still do not have good connectivity.
But connecting poor rural households is the least of the problem.
There's a lot of talk about cord - cutting these days, but almost no mention of how the shift toward internet - delivered television might be affecting rural households.
Besides, 25 % (45 million) of rural households across the country still have no electricity.
Some working cats are social and well - suited to a life lived outdoors or as companions to horses, making them a great addition to a variety of rural households.
Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University,...
«And second, even if they get connections, the supply is far from reliable; so there is no incentive for rural households above the poverty line to connect to the grid.»
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year launched Swachh Bharat («Clean India»), a high - profile campaign that aims to put toilets in 110 million rural households by October of this year, amongst other things.
«Migration [is] one of several options rural households face when they confront diminishing livelihoods such as a decline in crop yields.»
Together with development partners, PPM also fights rural household poverty through its project Fighting Rural Household Poverty through Piggery (FRHPP).
Vision Statement: To provide top quality Pork for healthy living of people all over the world and fighting rural household poverty through piggery in Uganda.
The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.
Based on nearly one million individually mapped rural households, the study shows that the total remaining forest area affected by hunting far exceeds the total area that has been deforested to date.
Living in rural households decreases a person's risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly for young children and adolescents, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and the Canadian Gastro - Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC).
We report the results of a randomized evaluation of three programs designed to improve the home learning environment among rural households in India.
The Green Belt Movemnet (GBM) is mobilizing rural households to intensively restore natural resources on their farms and on riparian reserves with special focus on soil, water and diversity of trees and crops grown.
As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).
Rural households tend to rely heavily on climate - sensitive resources.
There is also a huge opportunity for the industry in reaching rural households and delivering access to solutions that simply are not possible without cheap solar, affordable storage, and digitisation — solutions that are provided via cellphones, for example.
This video provides an overview of WFP's and Oxfam America's R4 Initiative, a comprehensive risk management approach that helps vulnerable rural households increase their food and income security in the face of increasing climate risks.
Definitions of basic access thresholds vary from organization to organization; take for example the IEA, which estimates 250 kWh per rural household, per year.
(Urban households» trips averaged 8.5 miles, while rural households» trips averaged 12.1 miles.)
Perception and Information Seeking Behaviour of Rural Households towards Health Promoting Practices in Maigana District of Kaduna State, Nigeria
In many cases, rural households don't have the necessary speeds to stream high - definition video or they're saddled with low monthly usage caps that don't play well with the heavy bandwidth demands that HD content such as House of Cards have.
Mr Henry Kerali, World Bank Country Director, who visited one of the project sites ahead of the harvesting at Tamaligu, described it as «the start of a dream come true» by boosting local production and increasing incomes for rural households.
A spokesman for Cable.co.uk said the easiest way for the UK to climb the rankings is to get broadband to rural households with very low speeds, and also roll out «fibre to the home» (FTTH) broadband networks.
The large majority of rural households in India still depend on fi re wood as their main energy source for cooking and to treat drinking water.
In China, tens of millions of rural households still burn coal directly inside their homes to cook.
FAO estimates that the disease causes more than $ 2 billion in losses annually and is an economic disaster for the small herders and poor rural households that depend on the animals for milk, meat, wool, and leather both for their own use and for trade.
Such as the fact that as of 2010, about half of rural households in America did not have internet access at home.
Consider a model for the pluralistic living of various religious communities along the lines of a large, traditional, rural household in India.
Nara, in association with Swades Foundation will commemorate the beginning of the Thai New Year, Songkran, by providing drinking water and water facilities to rural households in Raigad district of Maharashtra.
«There should be a special focus on smallholder farmers, women and rural households and their access to land, water and high quality seeds... and other modern inputs.»
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.
Yet figures show that rural households are less likely to take up schemes that reduce fuel costs, such as cheaper tariffs or energy efficency schemes, due to a lack of broadband access.
As a result, more than 18 million rural households have adopted the fuel source, according to the Chinese government — a number they would like to boost to 40 million by 2010.
That critique may be correct, but dismissing guppies as a control strategy is counterproductive, says John Hustedt, senior technical officer of the nonprofit Malaria Consortium in Phnom Penh, which has been releasing the fish into water storage jars in rural households to combat dengue fever and other mosquito - transmitted diseases.
About 66 percent of rural households and 60 percent of urban households in the NSS count as undernourished.
«Our findings show that children, particularly those under the age of 10, experience a protective effect against IBD if they live in a rural household.
«People living in rural households have lower risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease.»
This effect is particularly strong in children who are raised in a rural household in the first five years of life.
«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.
PPM aims at increasing the production of pigs through rural households; we empower them to produce as they fight poverty.
States also need to invest in broadband infrastructure to bring broadband services to rural households.
Less than 20 per cent of our rural households have any printed material at home, other than religious books (let's say).
Social working cats are well suited to a life lived outdoors or as companions to horses, making them a great addition to a variety of rural households.
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