The fields are barren.

Poor ground, you say?

Below the hillside was a bare plain.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

National Committee for Arid Zones

And there the land was poor and wild game rare.

Step one is that the Taliban prey on families that are large, that are poor, that live in rural areas.

Now, we're talking about a continent that is not poor.

Yes, stranger, you're dead right. Awful poor ground.

1. Poverty

This is a rugged and barren landscape, yet there are quite a few spiders here.

clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.

Technically speaking, to be decadent is to be weak, diminished in energy, sterile.

Cross cutting theme eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty

Cross cutting theme eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty

Cross Cutting Theme Eradication of Poverty, Especially Extreme Poverty

I work in global poverty.

Somalia is mostly a barren land with long coasts on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

Poverty lies at the centre of the 10 priority areas.

But what Galileo saw was a rocky, barren world, which he expressed through his watercolor painting.

This piece, which is called Flipped Earth she was interested in taking the sky and using it to cleanse barren ground.

Some Success Stories of VIVAT Members in Reducing Poverty

Because the land is so infertile, they largely are shepherds, which occasions regular, low intensity physical activity.

Poverty alleviation is the priority area of sustainable development planning in Nepal.

Poverty eradication will be the all encompassing advocacy theme in each of the above mentioned areas.

Agricultural activity in Anguilla is limited due to a combination of factors, including poor soil, the small amount of arable land and irregular rainfall.

Joint programming was being discussed in areas of common interest such as marginalized populations and urban slums.

By harmonizing work programmes on poverty eradication, the necessary policy coherence in the field and the integration of all areas of intervention could be achieved.

In the social sphere, the region is still trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, unemployment and violent conflict.

The Commission considered critical areas of concern in respect of women and poverty and women and the environment.

Poverty The lack of drinking water, electricity or sanitation infrastructures are expressions of poverty and are areas where local governments have a direct responsibility.

11. The RCF includes two projects in this thematic area, namely, a project on human development policies and statistics and a Regional Poverty Programme.

In Sudan, IFAD has funded research into cash and forage crop varieties that are resistant to drought, salinity and poor soil conditions.

To give just one example, in Peru harsh local environments, characterized by depleted saline soils and high altitudes, have traditionally caused many crops to fail.

The seven countries of the region are engaged in various areas of cooperation, including the suppression of terrorism and drug abuse, environmental preservation, poverty alleviation and the promotion of regional trade.

The preferred priority areas take account of the concerns of African countries insofar as these constitute a cross cutting dimension of development cooperation strategies and poverty reduction policies.

This sector is part of the economic as strategies for the creation of jobs and poverty reduction.

RBEC decided to concentrate the limited regional funds in areas that fell under the UNDP mandate and areas of focus, namely poverty eradication, gender in development, governance, sustainable livelihoods, and the environment.

Unsustainable land use practices constitute one of the major threats to sustainable food production on much of the Earth's marginally productive lands.

40. The rural population in the country s five districts consists mainly of nomadic herdsmen living precariously on pastures depleted by drought and overgrazing.

We went and found these incredible clam beds sitting on the barren rock. Large clams, and when we opened them, they didn't look like a clam.

In urban areas poverty affects badly the slum areas.

We've been familiar for 40 years with this image the fragile beauty of land, ocean and clouds, contrasted with the sterile moonscape on which the astronauts left their footprints.

In addition to implementing poverty alleviation programmes, it had taken action in a number of key areas.

The United Nations University has conducted research and policy studies with relevance to gender equality in a number of areas, including economic development, new technologies, natural resource management, armed conflict, leadership, trafficking and poverty.