{"id":5838,"date":"2019-10-09T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"fewer-children-fewer-climate-risks-niger-ponders-a-controversial-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/09\/fewer-children-fewer-climate-risks-niger-ponders-a-controversial-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Children, Fewer Climate Risks? Niger Ponders A Controversial Option"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;Sebastien Malo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\na country with the world&#8217;s highest birth rate per woman, hers is an uncommon\nmove and, to some, a controversial one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But\nenvironmentalists and youth activists in Niger hope it is one more families\nwill embrace, to help reduce threats from the destructive effects of a changing\nclimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate\nchange has meant Niger has seen a swift rise in temperatures and less abundant\nwater flows in rivers, in addition to more intense droughts and floods, said\nIssa Lele, a meteorologist with the United Nations Development Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a growing threat to food and water supplies &#8211; and the pressures heighten as the nation&#8217;s population booms, with each woman having on average 7.6 children, said Sani Ayouba, the director of the environmental group Young Volunteers for the Environment\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191007095130-8nc9h\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Sebastien Malo In a country with the world&#8217;s highest birth rate per woman, hers is an uncommon move and, to some, a controversial one. But environmentalists and youth activists in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5839,"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-5838","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\/5838","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=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}