Sentences with phrase «rural population lack»

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

Not exact matches

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.

But nearly half the population in rural Africa can not access such services because of a lack of local infrastructure.

«The great majority of the rural population who grow maize — rain - fed agriculture — for their own consumption are the poorest of the poor and lack the means to invest in the very expensive and risky migration venture.»

According to «Out of the Loop,» a recent report by the National School Boards Association, «Poverty, isolation, and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable population.»

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

Many districts — especially urban, inner suburban and rural, serving very high - need student populations — continue to struggle from a lack of sufficient funding, which makes it impossible to provide all students with the opportunity for a high quality education.

Other less rural areas outside of major population centers with a serious lack of mortgage credit may qualify with populations between 10,000 - 20,000 residents.

Massachusetts - based artist Tomashi Jackson's research in the Atlanta area has led her to tackle the issue of public transportation — or the lack of it — as it was used to segregate the rural and historically white population of...

Not long ago, we wrote about blueEnergy, a non-profit organization that is building hybrid wind and solar systems to power homes, schools and rural clinics in rural Nicaragua where nearly 80 percent of the population lacks electricity.

Displacement risk increases when populations that lack the resources for planned migration experience higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries with low income.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

Perhaps those «brilliant» researchers might want to mention all the wars, the insurgencies, over population, Sharia laws, poor to thuggish governments, lack of to no education, rural moving into city life, or any of a host of problems associated with each of these countries.

More than two - thirds of sub-Saharan Africa's population lacks electricity, with that number growing to more than 85 percent in rural areas.

Enter blueEnergy, a pragmatic non-profit organization that is building hybrid wind and solar systems to power homes, schools and rural clinics in this region where nearly 80 percent of the population lacks electricity.

By that date, USDA will revert to using a definition not updated since 1974 which requires communities to: 1) be outside of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), 2) be «rural in character», 2) have a serious lack of mortgage credit, and 3) have a population under 20,000.

Areas that could qualify as «rural in character» must have a population between 2,500 and 10,000 and successfully meet the standard «rural in character» analysis; however, USDA will consider some areas with a population between 10,000 and 35,000, if the area meets the standard «rural in character» analysis and has a serious lack of mortgage credit for lower - and moderate - income families.