{"id":8537,"date":"2020-03-10T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","slug":"not-just-farmers-understanding-rural-aspirations-is-key-to-kenyas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/10\/not-just-farmers-understanding-rural-aspirations-is-key-to-kenyas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Farmers: Understanding Rural Aspirations Is Key To Kenya\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 8.3 million people living in Kenya\u2019s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically have just a few acres of land and depend on rain to grow their crops. This makes them extremely vulnerable to changes in the weather. Many already struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, rural communities in Kenya are characterised by higher rates of poverty, illiteracy and child mortality. They also have poor access to basic services, such as electricity and sanitation.<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/not-just-farmers-understanding-rural-aspirations-is-key-to-kenyas-future-129909\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8.3 million people living in Kenya\u2019s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically have just a few acres of land and depend on rain to grow their crops.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8538,"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-8537","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\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}