{"id":5024,"date":"2019-09-02T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"satellite-data-shows-hunger-looming-in-senegal-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/02\/satellite-data-shows-hunger-looming-in-senegal-mauritania\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Data Shows Hunger Looming In Senegal, Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\u00a0Nellie Peyton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds\nof thousands of people in Senegal and Mauritania are at risk of going hungry in\nthe coming year because not enough grass has grown to feed the region&#8217;s cattle,\nanalysts said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite maps&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/geosahel.info\/Viewer.aspx?map=Analyse-Biomasse-Finale\"><strong>show barren pastures<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;across large swaths of the two\nWest African countries, which means animals will die, robbing owners of their\nsole source of food and income. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar lack of pasture in 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20180503175701-z3dvf\"><strong>left 5 million people needing food aid<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;the subsequent year across six\ncountries in West Africa&#8217;s Sahel region, a grassy zone below the Sahara desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare not yet estimates of the number of people who could be affected by the\ncurrent situation, but in some areas it looks worse than 2017, said Zakari\nSaley Bana, a disaster risk reduction advisor for the charity Action Against\nHunger (ACF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About\n350,000 families depend on cattle herding in Senegal, according to a\npastoralists&#8217; association\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190830131024-waaae\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Nellie Peyton Hundreds of thousands of people in Senegal and Mauritania are at risk of going hungry in the coming year because not enough grass has grown to feed the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5025,"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-5024","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\/5024","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=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}