{"id":193668,"date":"2025-03-16T06:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-climate-crisis-in-northern-ghana-2-6m-people-to-migrate-south-by-2050-if-temp-trend-continues-research\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T06:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:52:02","slug":"ghana-climate-crisis-in-northern-ghana-2-6m-people-to-migrate-south-by-2050-if-temp-trend-continues-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-climate-crisis-in-northern-ghana-2-6m-people-to-migrate-south-by-2050-if-temp-trend-continues-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Climate Crisis in Northern Ghana &#8211; 2.6m People to Migrate South By 2050 &#8230;If Temp Trend Continues &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">About 2.6million people are projected to migrate down south from northern Ghana by 2050 if the current temperature trends continue, researchers have warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Furthermore, the research said a decline in crop yield by one metric tonne per hectare could trigger an additional 350,000 climate-induced migrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Researchers have warned about the deepening climate crisis and its impact on northern Ghana, emphasising the urgent need for practical, inclusive and targeted interventions to build resilience,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2.6million people are projected to migrate down south from northern Ghana by 2050 if the current temperature trends continue, researchers have warned. Furthermore, the research said a decline in crop yield by one metric tonne per hectare could trigger an additional 350,000 climate-induced migrations. Researchers have warned about the deepening climate crisis and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[42996,258,256,6239,5106,3723,4508,4509,42983,29147,257,4282,6321,6712,5069,254,50875,10166],"class_list":["post-193668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-2-6m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-climate","tag-continues","tag-crisis","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-if","tag-migrate","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-people","tag-research","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-temp","tag-trend"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193668","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}