Sentences with phrase «rural poverty in»

Rural poverty in parts of Asia could be exacerbated due to negative impacts from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living [high confidence].

The goal of this strategy is to maximize IFAD's impact on rural poverty in a changing climate.

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.

Virginia Overton's two - piece show consists of the most suspect - looking hot tub since «Hot Tub Time Machine» — a tired drip coffee maker ineffectually filling a shabby bathtub — and the year's most transporting and best - smelling installation to date: A wall covered with odorous and richly colorful planks of cedar sourced from her family's Tennessee farm that, taken with the tub, makes for a romantic DIY portrayal of rural poverty in prime Chelsea.

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.

Brazil's impoverished northeast — where Zika has drawn the most attention — represents the largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin America, a situation that is likely aggravated by the country's current economic collapse.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

These programs usually require that the doctor practice in rural, underserved, or poverty - stricken areas.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

The Rwanda Partners Basket Co. is a poverty fighting program of Rwanda Partnersworking to change the lives of impoverished weavers and their families in rural Rwanda

(See my comment in response to Justin's below about the realities of rural poverty.)

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.

In short, the Palestine of Jesus» day was a mildly stratified, largely rural, society in which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolIn short, the Palestine of Jesus» day was a mildly stratified, largely rural, society in which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolin which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolt.

But since then I've been drawn back again and again by her unique point of view, as exhibited in posts like «Growing Into Authority,» «10 Reasons Rural Ministry is Great,» and «The Reality of Rural Poverty,» I've even been reading her series on Reformed Theology!

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.

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

More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.

Scott is the Executive Director of Plant With Purpose (formerly Floresta), a Christian nonprofit organization that reverses deforestation and poverty by transforming the lives of the rural poor in six countries.

After growing up in poverty in rural Wyoming, Alvin Kernan joined the prewar Navy in 1941 to get a start in life.

When poverty is chosen, when it is a voluntary status, undertaken for some moral or religious end, it is often a state of joy rather than of suffering, as in the case of Thoreau at Walden, the Peace Corps worker, or the inhabitant of a rural commune.

According to a study of the Food and Agriculture Organization about 700 million people in the rural areas of the poor countries live in absolute poverty and their lot is not improving.

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

Plant With Purpose began work in the Dominican Republic 27 years ago after recognizing the connection between deforestation and rural poverty, and has responded by developing a holistic program of watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Christian discipleship.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

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

Former President Bill Clinton, recognised for his poverty alleviation and rural development efforts, recognised coffee as a pillar of rural development during his participation in the 1st World Coffee Producers Forum that took place in Medellín, Colombia, 10 - 12 July.

This is an exciting development giving us a greater reach and a stronger voice in the fight against climate change, deforestation and rural poverty.

«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.»

Not only did Honduras suffer the highest deforestation rate in the Western hemisphere from 2005 to 2010, it has the worst income disparity in all of Latin America, with one in five rural people living in extreme poverty.

Both FAO and IRRI are actively promoting more sustainable rice practices throughout the value chain - production, marketing and consumption - to optimize its nutritional properties and as a means of improving livelihoods and tackling poverty, particularly in rural areas.

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.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

* A note about prices: I am located in a rural area with a high level of poverty.

She has served as an advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, as well as to the Tennessee Commission on Aging, the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, the Appalachian Rural Science Initiative of the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations.

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 Bengal Famine of 1943, a defining scar on the Bengali psyche, has been infamous internationally since Sen demonstrated — first in an article and then in his book Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)-- how famine did not occur due to «food availability decline» but rather the deterioration of «exchange entitlements» of particular groups in rural Bengal which denied them access to food.

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.

As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

Committee Chair Rev. Kinzer Pointer and other committee members are joining us here this afternoon, and I thank them for the work the Committee is doing in urban, suburban and rural settings to fully engage individuals in poverty or at - risk of being in poverty.

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

«Fuel poverty is a massive issue in many rural communities.

The most recent poverty rate for non-rural schools is about 21 percent, while the rate in rural schools increased to around 23 percent.

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released today.

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Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

The rural nature of much of the Welsh housing stock means not only that many of the properties are hard to treat but also that they are excluded from programmes aimed at disadvantaged communities because poverty tends to be dispersed in rural communities.

«We have continued to pioneer new approaches to empowering our primary stakeholders and our farmers, through the Dangote outgrowers programme thereby creating thousands of jobs, increasing incomes, poverty reduction in rural communities by providing high quality agro-inputs, technical support and secured market for farmers.