The four-day gathering, which has been criticized as more of an excuse for shopping than a serious effort at addressing world hunger, was called to revitalize government pledges made five years ago to halve the level of world hunger to 400 million people by 2015, a goal that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said will not be met.
The study calls for a concerted effort at addressing the structural, underlying causes and risk factors that lead to violence as well as improved availability of and access to culturally appropriate prevention, protection and response services.
This pattern is not particularly surprising since several efforts at addressing R. aurora occurrence in the Pacific Northwest have failed to demonstrate a bullfrog effect (Adams 1999, 2000; Curry 2007).
In Nigeria, energy-saving opportunities in the industrial subsector of the economy have remained a matter for speculation over the years due to uncoordinated efforts at addressing issues relating to energy efficiency and management.
This study presents detailed case studies of four US National Science Foundation (NSF) programs/initiatives to provide a framework for understanding diverse efforts at addressing social impacts, and to suggest some important gaps in our research approaches for assessing socio-economic impacts of research.
I encourage you to think about how you can direct your efforts at addressing the macro-level issues that create vulnerabilities for our young people.
"Existing efforts at addressing sexual predation of children were failing," one of North Carolina's briefs argued, adding that this law "bars offenders from taking what is often the critical first step in the sexual assault of a child.
In order to address growing domestic concerns about air pollution and to contribute to international efforts at addressing climate change, Chinese officials have launched several initiatives, including a pledge to peek its national greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and boost the amount of renewable energy it produces.
Instead of providing the metaphorical "drugs" that feed the corruption in Mahali Mzuri (no pun intended), these countries (and corporations such as Coca-Cola, Google and Facebook) and individuals should cut off the supply (aid/money) until the addict (Kenya) demonstrates verifiable and sustained efforts at addressing corruption.
As the migrants posed great challenges on TB control, the Beijing municipal government has increased its efforts at addressing this issue, for example, by providing free anti-TB drugs for its migrant population since 2006.
This is a big challenge to current efforts at addressing HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria and public health education campaigns.
