Sentences with phrase «rural poor»

There is the actual physical growth of the agencies themselves — the numbers of employees, which increases the tax burden on everyone, rural poor included.

Barbara comes from the rural poor.

One respondent urged attention to the concept of a «rural poor», comprising Indigenous groups and pastoralists, and noted that state governments needed to help both groups through regional development.

This was coupled with a message that that Gramin Bank along with corporate like Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company is spreading the message of «Financial Inclusion», an initiative rolled out by the Government of India for the betterment of the rural poor.

«This first round of law firm donations are primarily funding a summer rural legal fellows program, in which 32 lawyers in 28 states will be helping the rural poor.

Practical Action: This briefing focuses on the impact of climate change on Nepal's rural poor.

In developing nations, with no money for infrastructure, and the rural poor crowding into a toilet-less abyss, who cares about carbon footprint?

«The rural poor are often the most directly dependent upon natural resources, and they can get stuck in a real dilemma,» John Buchanan, Conservation International's Senior Director of Food Security, explains, «immediate needs for food and income can lead to unsustainable production practices or over-harvest of resources, which undermines the long - term viability of those same resources.

That's why it's encouraging to see solar being installed on affordable housing, not to mention solar as an empowerment tool for the world's rural poor.

The rural poor in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world are a rapidly emerging market for clean energy technologies.

There will no doubt be purists who are concerned about businesses profiting off the rural poor.

Since Honduras» 2009 coup, the country has pursued an aggressive economic growth strategy that has championed the rights of industry over those of the country's rural poor.

This manual roots for natural resources as the foundation from which rural poor people can overcome poverty.

Distributed generation offers part of the answer for the rural poor.

Main problems are the high up - front costs, particularly for installing equipment, plus the limited resources of the people — most often the rural poor — who need the technology.

This analytical report discusses about expanding the concept of carbon trading to include compensation for the rural poor for their contributions to soil conservation and avoided deforestation.

The plan highlights solar energy applications for the rural poor disconnected from the grid, sponsorship of research and development programs, and human resource development.

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar - powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.

Most REDD initiatives have worked at the local level only, usually by providing alternate income streams for the rural poor, but the current trend is towards more ambitious efforts that cover entire jurisdictions and harness carbon finance to purge deforestation from corporate supply chains.

When Orwell complains about the claim that «love of Nature is a foible of urbanized people who have no notion what Nature is really like», and that it is shown to be false by «Medieval literature», which «is full of an almost Georgian enthusiasm for Nature», he forgets that it wasn't the rural poor who were writing Medieval literature — they couldn't write.

Greening rural development can stimulate rural economies, create jobs and help maintain critical ecosystem services and strengthen and strengthen climate resilience of the rural poor.

One of the more promising findings came from Africa, where the number of offsets from projects that promote the use of clean cookstoves among the rural poor surged at least 40 % and probably much more.

Savings from reduced consumer and producer subsidies can be used for large ‐ scale renewables, energy efficiency and public transport systems, and, in developing countries, toward the rural poor, through for instance cleaner cooking and lighting such as distributed renewables and clean cook stoves.

This guidance document explains how climate change is already hurting the rural poor, damaging infrastructure, depressing crop yields, jeopardizing fish stocks, eroding natural resources and endangering species, causing significant damage to agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and human health.

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

Is it possible to generalize over what the rural poor would ask for from global climate negotiations and what would this be?

For the country's rural poor, these clean energy positions offer a lucrative alternative to subsistence farming.

In addition to complicating Turkey's already - troubled goal of «zero problems with neighbors,» Turkey's dams have also prompted human - rights concerns domestically, as most of the affected populations belong «to vulnerable groups like the rural poor, nomads, Alevi or Kurds,» according to last summer's U.N. report.

Look at how the wealthy live in Shanghai and compare it to the rural poor and tell me that is communist!

The idea returns yet later in discussions of the ongoing, multiple health stresses experienced by the rural poor in Honduras, making them less able to handle the effects of any additional stresses, such as those resulting from environmental disasters like Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Included were portraits, landscape paintings, and scenes of the rural poor.

Walker Evans» images of the conditions of the rural poor during the Depression were made famous in the 1941 book «Let Us Now Praise Famous Men».

The mother of the current king initiated many projects in her lifetime aimed at bettering the lives of the rural poor, especially for the hill tribes on the fringes of Thai society.

In working with these non-profits, I learned that only 5 % of Guatemala's rural poor women use contraception.

The issue that has not received attention in the policy making of labor migration is the issue of inclosing inaccessibility of the rural poor to choose to migrate.

Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas In Alabama, Samuel Mockbee's radical design / build program brought architecture to the rural poor and a new set of ethics to architecture.

Is this a case of «plus ça change» etc. with respect to the mores and décor prerogatives of the rural poor of the U.S., or an indication of the paucity of imagination on the part of the filmmakers?

Isn't it a fact that the bulk of Asians (or at least the rural poor Asians) eat white rice several times a day?

Will it reach the rural poor?

«Suffering» for a shopping mall At international climate negotiations, Indian leaders point to their rural poor as the raison d'etre for the nation's economic development agenda.

«We don't think those solutions will find their way to the rural poor very quickly,» he said.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

After moving west, she selflessly served both the rural poor Indian and white communities of Oneida, Wisconsin, for 40 years.

Lead author Dr Mauricio Schneider, of the Office of Legislative Council at Câmara dos Deputados, said: «Agrarian settlements have been widely hailed by Brazilian society as a socially responsible strategy to allocate land to the rural poor.

At Stanford and UC Davis, he explored such topics as irrigation investment, genetically modified cotton, and microcredit programs for rural poor.

The study provides much - needed solid evidence for the importance of forests to the world's rural poor.

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

He and others argued that at least 50 percent of the bank's energy lending should be aimed at access for the rural poor, focusing on small and decentralized electricity projects.

The Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, thanked the US government for alleviating the plight of the rural poor through its social intervention programmes under the auspices of the USAID and its allies.

«Electricity grid extension is generally uneconomical, while diesel generator sets are expensive to operate and maintain, and do not provide long - term environmentally and economically sustainable solutions, especially for the rural poor.