Sentences with phrase «rural people in developing countries»

Climate change hazards affect poor rural people in developing countries and efforts have to be promoted to strengthen their long - term resilience to climate change.

An agroforestry resource center helping rural people in developing countries improve their livelihoods through environmentally sustainable land management projects including tree planting

Nearly a third of all food is lost or wasted «between the farm and the fork» and it is the rural people in developing countries who suffer this loss the most.

Not exact matches

Over 1 billion people in the world today live under unacceptable conditions of poverty, mostly in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas of low - income Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the least developed countries.

The Committee is identifying and expanding agricultural training opportunities, relevant to the NSW rural sector, that will bring together Australian experts and people from developing countries to improve food production and processing in developing countries.

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.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

However, because Crohn's disease is more common in urban areas and developed countries compared to rural areas and underdeveloped countries, researchers believe a person's environment may be partly to blame too.

So when people try to say «well they eat rice in Blue Zones or in rural areas of other developing countries and don't get cancer» it's not a level playing field because the rice they consume IS NOT the rice that is constantly eaten here in America.

The report also tells us that most of the people still without access live in 20 countries in developing Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, and that about 80 percent of them live in rural areas.

Nearly half of the world's population, approximately 3.3 billion people, lives in rural areas, and 90 % of those people live in developing countries.

Rural development together with networking and advocacy, and building alliances among communities is a prerequisite for reducing the migration of people to cities and coastal areas in most developing countries of Asia (Kelly and Adger, 2000).

These attacks hurt marginalized communities domestically and abroad — people of color, those who live in rural areas, those struggling to make ends meet in the U.S. and women and girls living in poverty in developing countries — the most.

Global housing needs will be driven by a huge population shift over the next 30 years as 3 billion people, mostly in developing countries, migrate from rural to urban areas in search of opportunity.