In these departments, shortages exceed 50 per cent.

SBS also suffered from tight budget constraints and staff shortages.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

The floods also caused shortages of vegetables in the State shops.

Violent conflicts, food shortages and governance crises are among the most widespread causes.

China's demand for iron ore has remained strong, leading to temporary local shortages.

Heightened urban food insecurity, due to inflation and commodity shortages, has also been reported.

We afflicted Pharaoh's people with shortages of food and famine so that they might take heed,

We afflicted Pharaoh's people with shortages of food and famine so that they might take heed,

Delays and shortages persisted and the situation had to be remedied by drawing on reserve stocks.

For years We afflicted Pharaoh's people with shortages in food so that perhaps they would take heed.

For years We afflicted Pharaoh's people with shortages in food so that perhaps they would take heed.

International Herald Tribune, China, facing shortages in Asia, aims at South American suppliers , 20 21 November 2004.

(f) To enhance the status, morale and professionalism of teachers and to address shortages of qualified teachers

Schools also continue struggling with high drop out rates and serious shortages of teachers, especially female teachers.

UNMEE personnel are facing the consequences of mounting economic hardships in Eritrea, including periodic shortages of essential commodities.

Internally displaced persons face severe food shortages and inadequate access to safe drinking water, health and education services.

There are marked shortages of water and sanitation services in rural areas and in some departments in the country.

My country is facing severe food shortages owing to the drought that we have had since January this year.

However, the depletion of coping mechanisms has led to food shortages in more remote areas, particularly in Northern Darfur.

It can contribute simultaneously to unemployment in one region or sector and to labour shortages and brain drains in another.

Shortages of fuelwood often place particular burdens on women and girls, because they have to walk further to collect it.

UNCTAD's technical assistance was useful with regard to decreasing transit costs and facing up to infrastructural shortages and institutional bottlenecks.

This amount would be sufficient to eradicate the main shortages in the education sector, which are estimated at 60 million.

Livestock is also one of the biggest culprits in land degradation, air and water pollution, water shortages and loss of biodiversity.

The primary education sector also faces important problems, mostly related to insufficient or poorly maintained infrastructure and acute shortages of teachers.

In anticipation of possible food shortages in the coming months, several initiatives have been undertaken to ensure effective coordination of food aid.

The biggest shortages of improved water sources and sanitation services are in the rural areas of Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Petén and Alta Verapaz.

To maintain its economic growth, however, Jordan had to address national issues of poverty and unemployment, aid dependency and chronic water shortages.

With 3,059,600, Cuba could have met all the material shortages currently afflicting the programme of schools for children with special educational needs.

The ideal situation would have been for each family to receive as much as it needed, but shortages had forced rationing of food.

The economic and social situation remained grave, with food shortages and inadequate health and education services and a serious problem with HIV AIDS.

Such food shortages were experienced or are expected in particular in Burundi, Chad, Guinea, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and the United Republic of Tanzania.

In addition, the provision of special training could alleviate the shortages of skills required in the distribution and management of drugs, especially antiretrovirals.

It thus seems unavoidable that energy consumers, especially in many rich countries, will have to learn to exchange their current worries about the distant future consequences of global warming for the reality of energy shortages during periods of peak demand. Such shortages could result either in chaotic supplies and power outages or in a coordinated policy of energy rationing.

New programming tools, including the systematic use of standards and indicators and participatory assessments with refugees, allowed for improved quantification of the needs of refugees and articulation of the gaps due to resource constraints, but the delivery of assistance remained affected by difficult conditions, security problems, food shortages, logistical problems, climatic constraints and serious funding shortages.

The deployment of AMIS personnel recommenced on 19 September, after a three week pause brought about by local shortages of jet fuel for the Mission.

We have mapped the human genome, while there are places on Earth where people are dying because of shortages of basic medicines and health care.

In addition, crippling shortages of jet fuel and persistent funding shortfalls for air operations have severely constrained air support for food and non food deliveries.

Zimbabwe, for example, is facing a critical economic situation involving food shortages and a ballooning budget deficit, together with inflation, unemployment and the HIV AIDS pandemic.

The Iranian government fears that electricity shortages, slow economic growth, and high unemployment will turn the populace against it. As social tensions increase, political turmoil will follow.

Recent figures show an increasing trend towards relaxing entry conditions for foreign workers in OECD countries, mainly to bridge the skill shortages found in most of them.

For example, extreme weather occurs frequently in the world. Drought and floods have led to a reduction in food production and food shortages have seriously affected human development.

However, shortages of ARV treatment posed widespread constraints for treatment facilities in 2005, while universal precautions and affordable treatment of sexually transmitted infections need to be further developed.

However, it remains concerned about a variety of problems, including shortage of schools and overcrowding material shortages in schools equality of access to education drop out of boys.