{"id":272952,"date":"2019-04-13T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=5556eb6e21777178ad00090234b770f7"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:14","slug":"climate-change-has-dried-out-ethiopias-choke-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272952","title":{"rendered":"Climate change has dried out Ethiopia\u2019s Choke Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting in April 2019 described how <strong>Choke Mountain<\/strong> in northwestern Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region\u2014long a water tower of sloping barley and potato fields\u2014was drying under climate stress, with farmers watching springs weaken and seasons shift.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-244206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Trekking-through-Bale-Mountains-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C583&ssl=1\" alt=\"Climate change has dried out Ethiopia\u2019s Choke Mountain\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Highland drought and land degradation are not abstract global-warming slides for Ethiopian audiences. They cut into food production, migration decisions, and local conflict over water and grazing.<\/p>\n<p>The Choke Mountain story sits with other lasting climate files from the Horn: adaptation is not optional branding, it is whether rural watersheds still function. That is why environment reporting from 2019 still earns a place as reference material.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/world\/africa\/2019-04-13-climate-change-has-dried-out-ethiopias-choke-mountain\/\">Business Day \/ Business Live<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change has dried out Ethiopia\u2019s Choke Mountain&nbsp;&nbsp;Business DayChoke \u2014 Sloping fields of barley and potatoes stretching far into the distance are a common sight in the mountains of Ethiopia&#8217;s northwestern Amhara Regional &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":244206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Trekking-through-Bale-Mountains-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=1115%2C834&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-190s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600512,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272952\/revisions\/600512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}