{"id":273088,"date":"2019-04-15T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEOkjdQd_w99P6H9dpbvIMfQqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:27","slug":"climate-adaptation-success-stories-from-afar-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273088","title":{"rendered":"Climate adaptation success stories from Afar, Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A April 2019 ReliefWeb \/ Islamic Relief release highlighted <strong>climate adaptation<\/strong> work in Ethiopia\u2019s Afar region\u2014agriculture, drought coping, and community practices framed as success stories rather than pure emergency appeals.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-599913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ethiopia-pastoral-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1\" alt=\"Climate adaptation success stories from Afar, Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afar sits on harsh climate front lines: pastoral livelihoods, scarce water, and flash floods when rains finally arrive. Documentation of what communities say actually works is research material for later drought cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the file for Horn climate readers, with the usual caution that NGO press releases emphasize wins. The underlying questions\u2014water access, mobility, and conflict under scarcity\u2014remain central.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/stories-afar-highlights-climate-adaptation-success\">ReliefWeb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/\">Islamic Relief<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories from Afar highlights climate adaptation success &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebEnglish News and Press Release on Ethiopia about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and Drought; published on 15 Apr 2019 by Islamic Relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":599913,"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-273088","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\/2026\/09\/ethiopia-pastoral-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-192E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273088","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=273088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600566,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273088\/revisions\/600566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}