{"id":19149,"date":"2019-02-13T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2019-02-13T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:14:09","slug":"fueled-by-climate-change-zimbabwes-erratic-harvests-cause-farmers-with-hiv-to-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/fueled-by-climate-change-zimbabwes-erratic-harvests-cause-farmers-with-hiv-to-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueled by climate change, Zimbabwe’s erratic harvests cause farmers with HIV to struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Tarisai Mubhoyi, 43, farms her field of ground nuts that she\u2019s been able to grow despite the drought.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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Jemitias Denhere shakes his head as he explains why, despite being a specialist in soil management and crop production, he specializes in beef livestock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The district agronomist \u2014 plants specialist \u2014 owns 27 hectares of land in the Mwenezi area of southern Zimbabwe, a particularly arid location. Here, farmers endure extreme weather challenges such as drought and flash flooding \u2014 and, thus, some of the highest food shortages.<\/div>\n
His cattle can exist on the little grass that remains during dry times, but to produce crops without irrigation is risky \u2014 so he decided against it. \u201cOne year, you win; one year, you will fail; repeat,\u201d he said. Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>Tarisai Mubhoyi, 43, farms her field of ground nuts that she\u2019s been able to grow despite the drought. \u00a0 Jemitias Denhere shakes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hiv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}