In support of Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC), Brittany Ward worked on a project that utilized technology to facilitate the delivery of services to
rural populations in Alaska.
The focus of the paper is on the agricultural sector, where the impacts of climate change have the potential to disrupt the livelihoods of
rural populations in many regions and where adaptation must be given urgent consideration.
Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist
rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is directing a program to strengthen veterinary services to designated underserved
rural populations in Kentucky through a grant provided by the USDA's Veterinary Services Grant Program and in partnership with Kentucky veterinarians.
Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist
rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
But, only about 2 % of the population of the United States is employed in farming, and even if you have a substantial multiplier for people who economically benefit when farmers are doing well, this is still only a modest share of
the rural population in the United States.
However, this was the first HPV and cytology study conducted in
a rural population in Nepal, so its results should be considered useful.
Loving High School in Loving, New Mexico serves a largely Latino, low - income
rural population in an area of low economic growth.
Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of
the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia.
This decade, 2001 - 2010, is the first ever in which the urban population grows faster than
the rural population in the LDCs.
Not exact matches
This incredible journey was made possible by a massive
population shift from
rural to urban, which
in turn was facilitated by the unprecedented expansion
in manufacturing and international trade
in China, a country that steadfastly ignored the entire MDG process.
According to Parikh, 10 % of the world's
population live
in these
rural areas — found
in certain regions
in Africa and India, among others — and are unable to access the web.
In addition, populations are dwindling faster in the suburban and rural area
In addition,
populations are dwindling faster
in the suburban and rural area
in the suburban and
rural areas.
Exposure to pollution is associated with the increasing
population of cities, but people who live
in rural areas are also at risk.
These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed)
population of old,
rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest
in talking to them.
I grew up
in a
rural area
in a town with a
population smaller than my first college dormitory!
Wyoming has a small and largely
rural population, but its highest earners are
in the oil, gas and minerals extraction industries.
And I don't even live
in a particularly
rural area,
in fact I live
in town, just not many jobs, particularly not after the economy tanked (not much
population density, but compared to some areas
in the states we are packed).
Generally, cities and towns with a
population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «
rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.
So it covers about 87 percent of the country's
population, excluding people
in rural areas and those
in the military and
in prison.
First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties
in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more
in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.
The geographic areas that CFs serve vary
in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to
rural counties with
populations less than 2,500.
Gradually the
population was shifting from
rural to urban settings, and the meaning and nature of work was being defined
in a secular context.
Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest
population of poor people
in the world, one third of our
rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled
in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global
population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.
Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life
in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's
population from
rural to urban.
But
in the United States, the uprooting of the
rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.
Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that
population movement; but the
rural ethos continued to be reflected
in worship, organization and mission priorities.
In its current commitment to the development of its
rural population, it can place emphasis on «Food First.»
Sociological theology needs ecological theology
in order to widen its horizons to the actual situation of the majority of the human
population who face an increasingly desperate and neglected plight
in their
rural villages.
In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environment
In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time
in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environment
in history, more than half of the world's
population lives
in cities, rather than rural environment
in cities, rather than
rural environments.
The inclusion of isolated
population segments into the dominant economy created permanent disruptions
in the moral economy of
rural life — social upheavals that generated potential recruits for sectarian movements.
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.
In France urban populations, some of the rural districts, and laborers in mines and factories tended to drift away from the Churc
In France urban
populations, some of the
rural districts, and laborers
in mines and factories tended to drift away from the Churc
in mines and factories tended to drift away from the Church.
In place of the prevailingly
rural economy to which, through the parish system, the Church had adapted itself, mining and manufacturing towns were rapidly emerging and the
populations of existing cities were mounting and were outgrowing or making anachronistic the ecclesiastical structures of earlier days.
«We are a country with a large territory but small
population, which makes distribution costly and difficult, especially
in the
rural areas where there is great potential,» Vallejo explains.
Iwai N, et al. «Relationship between coffee and green tea consumption and all - cause mortality
in a cohort of a
rural Japanese
population.»
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 acces
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 acces
in four
rural residents have no access to an improved water source;
in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks acces
in Kenya, nearly half the
rural population lacks access.
Shane McIntyre, national director of
rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef
in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein,
population growth and a wealthier world.
Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's
population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many
in the
rural economy.
More than half of El Salvador's
population lives
in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.
Another option proposed for the area was afforestation, but
in view of the high density of
rural population and the fertile soils this was dismissed and another alternative was sought.
Apart from the handful who were born
in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island,
in the first or third or ninth grade, reared
in trailers or at friends» houses or
in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land
in a small town:
population 15,000, liberal and
rural, five crowded elementary schools.
Although affluent and urban women began having their babies
in hospitals, however, medically underserved
populations, such as
rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth
in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.
Further support is drawn from the
population - mixing theory that an excess of childhood leukemia has been found
in rural, potentially immunologically naive,
populations that have undergone an influx of permanent residents.8 - 12
This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion
population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country
in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially
rural.
Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence
in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially
in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global
population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.
The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map
in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging
rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile
populations that usually favour Labour.
Orphanages are located
in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children
in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan
population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.
That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster
population numbers
in the primarily
rural districts.