{"id":4883,"date":"2019-08-27T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"malawi-farmers-diversify-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/27\/malawi-farmers-diversify-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Farmers Diversify To Fight Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By UN News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 80 percent of Malawi\u2019s and indeed the world\u2019s\u00a0agriculture\u00a0depends on\u00a0rain, however\u00a0rainfall is\u00a0becoming\u00a0more\u00a0erratic forcing farmers to change traditional\u00a0practices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A UN Development&nbsp;Programme-supported&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home.html\">UNDP<\/a>)&nbsp;project&nbsp;in the southern African country&nbsp;is\nhelping to mitigate&nbsp;variable rainfall patterns&nbsp;through the\nintroduction of new crops&nbsp;and practices,&nbsp;such as tomatoes&nbsp;and\nbeekeeping, and the installation of a solar-powered irrigation system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers\nin Malawi&nbsp;are&nbsp;diversifying their&nbsp;crops and\nadopting&nbsp;sustainable technologies&nbsp;as they&nbsp;look at ways\nto&nbsp;adapt to a changing&nbsp;climate.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/undp-adaptation.exposure.co\/a-call-for-climate-action\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News Around 80 percent of Malawi\u2019s and indeed the world\u2019s\u00a0agriculture\u00a0depends on\u00a0rain, however\u00a0rainfall is\u00a0becoming\u00a0more\u00a0erratic forcing farmers to change traditional\u00a0practices.\u00a0\u00a0 A UN Development&nbsp;Programme-supported&nbsp;&nbsp;(UNDP)&nbsp;project&nbsp;in the southern African country&nbsp;is helping to mitigate&nbsp;variable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4884,"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-4883","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\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}