By\nSiyanda Sishuba<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agriculture\nsector in Africa could lose up to 14 million jobs by 2030 due to heat stress.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is according to a new report by the International Labour Organization\ntitled: ‘Working on a warmer planet: The impact of heat stress on labour\nproductivity and decent work’. By Siyanda Sishuba The agriculture sector in Africa could lose up to 14 million jobs by 2030 due to heat stress. This is according to a new report by the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4079,"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-4078","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\/4078","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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhile it is expected that the general labour force in Africa would increase by\n2030, some jobs could be threatened as working hours were reduced due to heat\nstress. The agriculture sector was expected to be one of the sectors that would\nbe greatly affected by this.
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\nAccording to the report, more than 129 million workers on the continent were\nemployed in agriculture in 1995, accounting for more than 55% of the total\nworkforce of around 230 million\u2026Read\nmore>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"