Sentences with phrase «where rural populations»

«That's certainly not the case in the U.S., where rural populations remain second - class citizens insofar as Internet access goes,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

Even in rich countries, proposals for «rewilding» — which I strongly support — only stand a chance of success in areas where rural populations have collapsed and formerly subsidised unproductive farms can be shut down to allow them to revert to nature.

Not exact matches

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

The city where I live has an extremely diverse population, surprisingly so for a small - town rural area.

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.

That and the shrinking rural population (where the peer pressure is much greater) has a lot to do with it.

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.

«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.

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.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.

Multimember constituencies work best in areas of high population density, and worst in sparsely populated rural areas where geographically the constituency may be very large.

Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul says among other things, the funding will target a particular population: addicts in more rural areas where treatment is an hour or two away.

A third of Wales» population live in rural areas where farming and agricultural supply chain businesses are the backbone of local economies.

This problem extends across the United States, where underserved rural populations do not have access to wastewater disposal.

To check whether helminths cause the same effects in people, the scientists compared two populations in Malaysia: urbanites living in Kuala Lumpur, who harbor few intestinal parasites, and members of an indigenous group, the Orang Asli, who live in a rural area where the worms are rife.

Such was the case in Haiti where the already poor, rural towns outside of the capital had to provide care to the fleeing masses — almost 23 % of Port - au - Prince's total population — without the necessary outside help.

For her doctoral thesis, Ellen Blommaert looked for answers in Winam, a rural area of western Kenya where HIV / AIDS wreaked havoc among the population.

Lower income populations across the world, like in rural China, are often where these high levels of indoor air pollution occur.

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

There will be extra funding for «sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp increases in pupil numbers.

These program dollars help fund services linking tribal populations to jobs, healthcare and other services, often in rural areas where transit is sparse or nonexistent.

Insurance providers do their best to gauge each individual policy holder's potential risk; and since risk to a vehicle tends to be significantly lower in rural areas and places where population density is low, it's easier to understand how even large, national insurance providers are able to offer such bargains here.

Separated by the Appalachian Mountains, Shelby Humane Society is located in the eastern region of the county, where the population is more rural.

In a rural Alaska village, where access to veterinary care requires a plane ride, dog populations quickly grew out of control because of people's unaltered pets.

The majority of the country's diverse Mayan population resided mainly in the interior of Toledo (where they constituted some 57 percent of the district's people) and the rural areas of Stann Creek, Orange Walk, and Corozal.

What if you live in a rural area where the population base is low income / not very interested or able to buy art.

Shortly after World War I, the U.S. population became increasingly urban rather than rural, but where artists lived did not necessarily dictate where they worked.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

She is currently living in the small rural community of Bruno, Saskatchewan, (population 600), where she works as a distance - education instructor through the University of Guelph while also co-directing (with Tyler Brett) The Bruno Arts Bank, a small music venue / artist residency / coffee shop / art gallery / mini - museum / music and bookshop.

Not long ago, we wrote about blueEnergy, a non-profit organization that is building hybrid wind and solar systems to power homes, schools and rural clinics in rural Nicaragua where nearly 80 percent of the population lacks electricity.

A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»

Contrast this with Malawi, where 79 % of the population is rural, and agriculture makes up 49 % of GDP.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

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.

Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India where he became intimately familiar with the food / population issue.

Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.

Even in Norwich where he works, population 136,000, UHI will be more than 1C, although we have little truly rural land in SE England, so I could be understating things.

Wood is best used as a fuel outside cities, in small towns and rural areas, where the cost of firewood and population density are lower.

Sunlabob Rural Energy Rents Out Solar PV Systems Such a model is now being employed with success in Laos to bring a variety of solar products to a country where 74 % of the population lives on less than $ 2 per day, and only 48 % are connected to the electric grid.

Enter blueEnergy, a pragmatic non-profit organization that is building hybrid wind and solar systems to power homes, schools and rural clinics in this region where nearly 80 percent of the population lacks electricity.

Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science, he spent six months living in rural India, where he became intimately familiar with the food / population issue.

«As India marches into the knowledge economy, it is imperative that rural India, where 70 per cent of our population resides, be exposed to the benefits of IT.

Insurance providers do their best to gauge each individual policy holder's potential risk; and since risk to a vehicle tends to be significantly lower in rural areas and places where population density is low, it's easier to understand how even large, national insurance providers are able to offer such bargains here.

One such element is based on population and crime statistics, where rural Dakotans moving to the big city can see rises.

According to company officials, Bajaj Allianz wants to capture the rural market of the country because that's where about 70 per cent of the population live.

In particular, Planned Parenthood helps the Komen Foundation reach vulnerable populations — low - income women, African - American women, and Latinas — especially in rural areas and underserved communities where Planned Parenthood health centers are their only source of health care.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study examined the efficacy of bibliotherapy, where a program [now called Cool Kids Outreach] is implemented solely through the use of written or computerized materials with little or no therapist contact, in a rural population.

The committee recognises as a priority the importance of reducing the incidence of child deaths and serious injuries in particular population groups where there is a higher incidence of these events, such as amongst rural children and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.