{"id":193058,"date":"2025-03-07T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-minister-chombo-calls-for-investment-in-environmental-research-development\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:50:19","slug":"zimbabwe-minister-chombo-calls-for-investment-in-environmental-research-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-minister-chombo-calls-for-investment-in-environmental-research-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Minister Chombo Calls for Investment in Environmental Research, Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">There is need to invest more in environmental research and development to promote sustainable economic growth, Minister Marian Chombo has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Marian Chombo said research and development is key in reversing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking at belated Africa Environment Day commemorations in Chinhoyi, Minister Chombo said there is need for collaboration between the public and private&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is need to invest more in environmental research and development to promote sustainable economic growth, Minister Marian Chombo has said. Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Marian Chombo said research and development is key in reversing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, among others. Speaking at belated Africa Environment Day commemorations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6137,17060,5989,14654,6018,5941,257,6712,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-chombo","tag-development","tag-environmental","tag-investment","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-research","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}