{"id":1290,"date":"2018-01-11T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:48:08","slug":"affect-on-food-from-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/01\/11\/affect-on-food-from-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"affect on food from drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\">There has been a market glut as pastoralists have sold off surviving animals, triggering price crashes of as much as 90 percent in some areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">&#8220;Most of the communities we support as an organisation are pastoralists who solely rely on livestock for livelihoods. They lost most of their livestock,&#8221; Godfrey Wapangana, a programme officer at the aid agency World Vision, told IRIN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">That has reduced the availability of protein and milk, worsening nutritional levels, particularly among children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">The drought has also hit food production, with maize output falling by 99 percent compared to the long-term average in coastal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a market glut as pastoralists have sold off surviving animals, triggering price crashes of as much as 90 percent in some areas. &#8220;Most of the communities we support as an organisation are pastoralists who solely rely on livestock for livelihoods. They lost most of their livestock,&#8221; Godfrey Wapangana, a programme officer at the aid agency World Vision,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/01\/11\/affect-on-food-from-drought\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}