{"id":198222,"date":"2025-05-16T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-most-basotho-see-worsening-drought-crop-failure-erosion-concern-about-climate-change-is-high\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:25:42","slug":"lesotho-most-basotho-see-worsening-drought-crop-failure-erosion-concern-about-climate-change-is-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-most-basotho-see-worsening-drought-crop-failure-erosion-concern-about-climate-change-is-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Most Basotho See Worsening Drought, Crop Failure, Erosion &#8211; Concern About Climate Change Is High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Many citizens report having to adapt their work and personal lives to changing weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A vast majority (91%) of Basotho say drought has worsened in their region over the past 10 years. A similarly large number (87%) say crop failures have become more severe, while 69% report worsening land or soil erosion. Half (50%) say flooding has worsened. o Majorities report worsening drought, crop failures, and land\/soil erosion across all four of Lesotho&#8217;s ecological zones.<\/li>\n<li>In&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many citizens report having to adapt their work and personal lives to changing weather patterns. Key findings A vast majority (91%) of Basotho say drought has worsened in their region over the past 10 years. A similarly large number (87%) say crop failures have become more severe, while 69% report worsening land or soil erosion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198223,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,18241,7796,6239,7167,13000,4787,25403,5631,6184,4717,1407,257,254,9273],"class_list":["post-198222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-concern","tag-crop","tag-drought","tag-erosion","tag-failure","tag-high","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worsening"],"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\/198222","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=198222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}