{"id":277232,"date":"2019-05-27T03:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBtaQ282FRmaH0W0CJnuVRAqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:20","slug":"cgiar-described-turning-afar-flood-risk-into-a-farm-water-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277232","title":{"rendered":"CGIAR described turning Afar flood risk into a farm water resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 ReliefWeb carried a CGIAR feature on Afar lowlands where researchers said land and water work had turned destructive floods into farm water, with production gains far above the usual slow climb of agronomy projects.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CGIAR described turning Afar flood risk into a farm water resource\" \/>\n<p>The piece said pastoral areas that once grew almost nothing could raise crops while cutting flood disaster risk, if spate irrigation and soil work matched the region\u2019s extreme wet\u2013dry swings.<\/p>\n<p>Climate adaptation stories from Afar matter because the lowlands sit on the front line of Horn drought and flash flood cycles that push both hunger and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agriculture and climate archive, the flood-to-farm file is a dated field note on Afar resilience experiments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/vulnerable-verdant-turning-flood-risk-farm-resource\">ReliefWeb \/ CGIAR<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebEnglish News and Press Release on Ethiopia about Agriculture, Disaster Management and Flood; published on 26 May 2019 by CGIAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":219692,"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-277232","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\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=707%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277232","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=277232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754924,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277232\/revisions\/754924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}