Sentences with phrase «small communities across the world»

But it arouses deep unease, not least because of fears it may erode the genetic resources in thousands of traditional varieties grown in small communities across the world.

Not exact matches

«In any one community such as Rhode Island the number of families might be small, but across the world this condition affects a bigger number of people.»

UNLV is commemorating World AIDS Day this December by recognizing the efforts of professors across multiple disciplines who are investigating the disease from the smallest building blocks of human genomes to its cross-continental impact on various communities.

When divorcee Lucy Emerson (a wonderful Dianne Wiest) moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to small town Santa Carla («The Murder Capital of the World» according to some graffiti spray - painted across the not - so - welcoming sign on the community's outskirts) in northern California, with her teenage sons Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), to live with her offbeat old man (Barnard Hughes).

To infuse research - based practices into more classrooms, 150 teachers and leaders in Small Learning Community schools in the district began taking courses this fall through WIDE World, capitalizing on the advantages of networked technologies to access HGSE research across distance.

Across the world, libraries big and small are busy preparing for the second annual day to celebrate their local writing communities.

Today, Meyer's «small community project» has grown to an 80,000 - acre swath of unparalleled open space, stretching across three counties and straddling one of the most famous straits in the world.