{"id":3752,"date":"2019-07-15T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"acting-early-to-mitigate-drought-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/15\/acting-early-to-mitigate-drought-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Early To Mitigate Drought In Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By the Food and Agricultural Organization<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan has long been known as one of the most arid\ncountries in Africa, but in recent years, rainfall there has become even more\nerratic. Extreme events, such as drought, are becoming more common.\n70&nbsp;percent of rural people in Sudan rely on rain-fed agriculture and\nlivestock rearing and for them, the unpredictable and intense conditions, like\nthose detected in Kassala, are stretching their coping capacities to the\nlimits. The cumulative effects of this &#8220;new normal&#8221; are taking a\ntoll; one drought can follow another, each time stripping away hard-earned but\nlimited resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why FAO is shifting community mind-sets in Sudan\nfrom reactive to one focused on prevention and mitigation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-stories\/article\/en\/c\/1195848\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the Food and Agricultural Organization Sudan has long been known as one of the most arid countries in Africa, but in recent years, rainfall there has become even more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}