{"id":6524,"date":"2019-11-13T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"farming-in-south-africa-is-under-threat-from-climate-change-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/13\/farming-in-south-africa-is-under-threat-from-climate-change-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming In South Africa Is Under Threat From Climate Change. Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Peter Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s an\nassumption in the agricultural industry that the yields and prices of crops\nwill vary according to local conditions as well as supply and demand in local\nand international markets. As a result, farmers understand that not every year\nwill be profitable but over the long run, all things being equal, the good\nyears should outnumber the bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is climate\nvariability and risk changing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is\nyes.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">Scientific evidence<\/a>&nbsp;which\nhas become more robust over the past decade points increasingly to this\nreality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what is changing\nand what can be done about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate risk and\nclimate resilience both need to be considered. If climate risk is increasing,\nresilience must be built up through measured and effective responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important\nclimate change risk is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">increased\ntemperature<\/a>. This affects rainfall and seasonal patterns on a global scale.\nIt also affects plants\u2019 phenological growth (phases in the plant\u2019s development\nwhich require certain thresholds of sunlight, heat and moisture) and physical\ngrowth, as well as animal growth and exposure to pests and diseases. Ultimately\nit contributes directly to yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temperatures\nare&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/southafrica.co.za\/climate-change-hotter-south-africa.html\">increasing<\/a>&nbsp;in\nsouthern Africa faster than the worldwide average. The region has seen rises of\nup to 1\u2070C over the past 100 years. This doesn\u2019t sound like much. But it\u2019s\naveraged over an annual cycle and some individual stations have had daily\ntemperatures increase by 3\u2070C-4\u2070C since records began in the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/farming-in-south-africa-is-under-threat-from-climate-change-heres-how-125984\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Johnston There\u2019s an assumption in the agricultural industry that the yields and prices of crops will vary according to local conditions as well as supply and demand in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6525,"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-6524","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\/6524","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=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}