Sentences with phrase «rural poverty»

It's a survival story that deals frankly with the realities of rural poverty, and there are moments I suspect many readers will find disturbing.

The project actions make a direct contribution to alleviate rural poverty, promote economic development, and strengthen the ability of local communities to prioritize and implement their own development.

Meanwhile, the state faces some serious challenges, including building new housing, addressing climate change and dealing with rural poverty.

Born into rural poverty, he painted water buffalo and herd boys in his early years.

These roots are literally life for those living in extreme rural poverty.

They also connected the dots between rural poverty, isolation, and violence.

The concerns of environmentalists and of social - justice advocates need not be in conflict when it comes to the attack on absolute rural poverty.

Unfortunately for the atmosphere and the forests themselves, working out an agreement with the tropical timber industry will be far easier than eliminating rural poverty.

And it will require a sustained global to effort to target the poor and fundamentally address rural poverty.

Although millions have been brought out of rural poverty and are doing well in material terms, millions more still live in a state of huge deprivation.

This approach can ensure food security, alleviate rural poverty and hunger and build resistance to major environmental challenges.

In 1993 he won a Times of India Fellowship to study and write on rural poverty in India.

José Graziano da Silva, director general, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), urged governments in the Asia and Pacific region to sharpen their focus on achieving Zero Hunger by reducing rural poverty

Featuring the unseen series After Russell Lee 1 - 60 (2016), the exhibition centres on life in rural New Mexico, where Levine revisits imagery taken by photographers contracted by the Farm Security Administration, an agency set up in the 1930s to combat rural poverty in the wake of the Great Depression.

Daniel, who's risen from rural poverty to a wealthy but soulless and troubled London existence, finds himself still obsessed with the three sisters and haunted by the summer of 1967.

On the other hand they show yet again that despite many years of research & development (R&D), the Golden Rice project has not yet produced a commercially viable rice line rich in provitamin A. Instead of investing in R&D that favors industrialised agriculture and corporate control over seeds, the root causes for hunger and malnourishment, such as rural poverty and access to markets, should be tackled.

And yet rural poverty is real and just around the corner here in Dayton.

But with the multi-layered supply chain, entrenched rural poverty and thousands of small cocoa farms, efforts have been «insufficient» according to the ILO.

A church consisting of «the rest of us» would indeed stand out in this little town, and if we can work together to address issues like rural poverty and racial reconciliation, I believe we can make a lasting impact here.

Planting trees in areas of rural poverty provides a sustainable source of nutrition for families and income to access education.

«And I call for the private sector to step up and to embrace the opportunity to work with governments in forested countries to produce raw materials in a way that tackles rural poverty while reducing emissions from deforestation.»

Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze is the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-- a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to rural poverty eradication in developing countries through investments in smallholder agriculture and rural development.

Unite is not against the modernisation of the AWB, but that rural communities are economically fragile where low wages are the norm - and to afford some protection against rural poverty was the reason that the AWB, which has it origins in the First World War, came into being in the first place.

He added that the investment would also enhance rural industrialisation and create wealth amidst rural poverty.

Irene and Sandy exposed a lot of rural poverty around here.

Claire Perry uses her maiden speech to highlight rural poverty as George Hollingbery and Hariett Baldwin raise the plight of pensioners in poverty

Developing the food systems that link farmers to cities will have an enormous impact on rural poverty alleviation and agricultural development.

The adaptation of E. Nesbit's 1906 novel sees three children and their mother forced to swap Edwardian city luxury for genteel rural poverty up north.

A black transgender woman living in rural poverty needs equal pay legislation far more urgently than a multi-millionaire movie star, but if words from Jennifer Lawrence help that happen, so be it.

«Rural poverty continues to be an enormous deterrent to student success in school,» said Tompkins.

Appalachia has some of the worst rural poverty in our nation, but schools are creating new strategies to improve access to mentors, tackling summer learning loss and increase high school graduation rates.

«North Central Kansas is rural, and urban poverty is kind of different [from] rural poverty,» he said.

Paradoxically, the artworks of such painters who flocked to the coastlines of Galway, Mayo and the islands, often ended up glorifying Irish rural poverty.

Founded in Tilonia, Rajasthan in 1972, the driving idea behind Barefoot College is to demonstrate that the key to alleviating rural poverty lies within communities themselves and do not necessarily come from urban professionals, government intervention or big foreign aid packages — it is grassroots and cooperative innovation at its finest.

- Publishers Weekly» [A] suspenseful novel, with a barn burner of a plot... McHugh shows herself to be a compelling writer intimately familiar with rural poverty and small - town weirdness.»

And that if the AWB is abolished, this will accelerate the slide into rural poverty.

The Legislature approved $ 5,000 at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the center's efforts to combat rural poverty and help residents through various services.

Bangladesh comes top of the «extremely vulnerable» category because of its large population, extreme rural poverty and high risk of flooding.

A report earlier this year then made the important link between rural poverty and deteriorating environment in China.

In seeking a site for his new institute, he focused on Brazil's northeastern corner, one of the country's least developed regions and home to one of the largest concentrations of rural poverty in Latin America.

«This form of government investment will hardly eradicate or reduce rural poverty, because of poor infrastructure and the severe economic inefficiencies of most agrarian settlements — which often result in high household - level turnover and giving - up rates of newly settled farmers following the local liquidation of natural forest resource capital.»

While REDD + offers the potential to simultaneously reduce emissions, conserve biodiversity, maintain other ecosystem services, and help alleviate rural poverty, concerns over potential adverse impacts have plagued the program since its conception.

Missing from the Campbell Conversations recent series on poverty was a discussion focused on rural poverty.

The negative effects are so great that they justify the investment of trillions of dollars and / or the diversion and disruption of industry, farming, transportation and commerce that gives us the quality of life we enjoy and that is elevating people like the Chinese from rural poverty.