Sentences with phrase «tackles 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.»

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The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

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.

In particular, we are establishing a new Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force to help tackle fuel poverty in remote rural and island communiRural Fuel Poverty Task Force to help tackle fuel poverty in remote rural and island commuPoverty Task Force to help tackle fuel poverty in remote rural and island commupoverty in remote rural and island communirural and island communities.

«I am so excited for the vision we have laid out: investments in high tech development that could put central New York on the map for leadership in unmanned systems, recognizing the rural parts of our community with investments in agriculture, tackling hard problems like poverty.»

In fact, our last tour to South Africa — which incorporated a visit to The Goedgedacht Trust, a charity providing real solutions to tackle poverty amongst rural children and youth — had such an impact on three of our students that on their return to England they independently organised and completed a charity cycle ride.

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.

Rather than blame Fairtrade for falling short in one study, consumers need to take responsibility to pressure «companies and governments to do more to effectively tackle poverty and to achieve sustainable rural transitions of benefit to all segments of rural society, as well as protecting the environment for all our sakes» (NRI).

This analytical report tackles participatory mapping as a contribution to addressing conflict - related issues and improving community ownership in sustainable natural resource management for enhanced rural poverty reduction.