{"id":5979,"date":"2016-02-04T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:15:12","slug":"drought-in-south-africa-brings-problems-for-maize-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/drought-in-south-africa-brings-problems-for-maize-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought in South Africa brings problems for maize farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Earth Observatory blog posted an interesting story yesterday about the impacts of South Africa&#8217;s current severe drought on maize farmers. \u00a0Drought is often seen in this region when a strong El Ni\u00f1o occurs, so it was not unexpected, but is more severe than usual. \u00a0Due to the dry conditions, farmers have not been able to establish their usual crop of maize, which is a staple there.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=87434\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=87434<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/south-africa-drought.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5980\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/south-africa-drought-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"south africa drought\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/south-africa-drought-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/south-africa-drought-186x138.jpg 186w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/south-africa-drought.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Earth Observatory blog posted an interesting story yesterday about the impacts of South Africa&#8217;s current severe drought on maize farmers. \u00a0Drought is often seen in this region when a strong El Ni\u00f1o occurs, so it was not unexpected, but is more severe than usual. \u00a0Due to the dry conditions, farmers have not been able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}