Sentence examples for aggravating poverty from inspiring English sources
Soil water erosion resulted in eco-environmental and socioeconomic losses, such as destroying farmland and grassland, triggering floods, sedimentation of reservoirs, damaging transportation and irrigation facilities, and aggravating poverty.
The drought also pushed up food prices, aggravating poverty.
They are justifying the exclusion of those who have been left behind by the global economy and aggravating poverty, inequality and human rights violations.
In spite of responses to climate variability, losses due to climatic hazards such as droughts continue to limit agricultural productivity, aggravating poverty levels (Eakin 2000).
This would further aggravate poverty and hunger throughout the world.
Most crime is committed by the poor and uneducated, she said, and a bad economy can aggravate poverty in ways that are not obvious.
Poor agricultural technology, lack of proper storage, frequent floods, low wages, unemployment, lack of markets for the rice, the impact of HIV and AIDS (with 29.4 % infection rate) and low commodity prices are some of the factors that aggravate poverty in the areas.
Fishing was a key occupation around Lake Victoria but the invasion of the Lake by water hyacinth has reduced fishing and aggravated poverty and food insecurity.
Vitamin A deficiency is estimated to affect 190 million preschool children and 19 million pregnant and/or lactating women world wide [ 8], which aggravates poverty and underdevelopment challenges in developing countries [ 9, 10].
"Indeed, the issue of strong demographic growth in Africa should be approached through the lens of dynamic development," she said, "in which the population is a factor of economic growth, rather than a phenomenon that aggravates poverty, as it is perceived nowadays".
And with conflict aggravating existing poverty, the report emphasizes the need for greater global attention and investment in post-conflict situations, to ensure a steady and stable transition to development.
