Sentence examples for mountainous communities from inspiring English sources

These remote mountainous communities, which survive on subsistence farming, have reached breaking point.

Among the towns that benefit from state aid to mountainous communities is Palagiano, in Puglia, whose highest point is 282 feet above sea level.

Many mountainous communities were isolated, thus making in difficult to receive aid.

In Nepal, rooftop solar panels are being used in households to provide power for daily electrical appliances and activities; at schools to power computers, laptops and cellphones; and at hospitals and health posts to power patient needs in the rural mountainous communities.

It was mid-afternoon when a huge boom of thunder startled the Ramírez family as they tended their maize crops in the tiny mountainous community of El Encinal, in Mexico's central state of Guanajuato.

Diodora told me about how Guatemalan mining officials attempted to have her assassinated for being outspoken about rejecting a mining development in her mountainous community.

At UNFCCC COP20 in Lima, Peru, Mountain Partnership members joined dignitaries from mountainous countries to hear FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo describe how climate-smart agriculture could help mountain communities increase their resilience to climate change, a major challenge these communities face.

Mountainous rural communities have traditionally managed their land extensively, resulting in land uses that provide important ecosystem services for both rural and urban areas.

Abies cilicica and Cedrus libani were identified as potential climax species of mountainous Mediterranean communities at the highest elevations, more specifically at the colder, wetter expositions and at the dryer, warmer expositions, respectively.

WHAT: A four-bedroom three-and-a-half-bath modern HOW MUCH: $475,000 SIZE: 2,796 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $169.88 SETTING: Indian Hills is a mountainous semirural community of about 1,200 people in the Parmalee Gulch, about 30 minutes southwest of downtown Denver.

She explains how difficult it is to reach everyone in this mountainous environment, where communities are widely spread out.