{"id":201792,"date":"2025-07-06T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-rethinking-rice-how-ghanas-awd-revolution-is-saving-water-securing-the-future-of-farming\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:49:51","slug":"ghana-rethinking-rice-how-ghanas-awd-revolution-is-saving-water-securing-the-future-of-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-rethinking-rice-how-ghanas-awd-revolution-is-saving-water-securing-the-future-of-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Rethinking Rice &#8211; How Ghana&#8217;s AWD Revolution Is Saving Water, Securing the Future of Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">In Ghana&#8217;s Weta rice belt in the Volta Region, a quiet revolution is taking root&#8211;one that promises to redefine how rice is grown in our water-stressed, warming world. Through a pioneering collaboration between UK and Ghanaian scientists, rice farmers are embracing a climate-smart innovation called Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a scientifically validated irrigation technique that conserves water, slashes greenhouse gas emissions, and enhances crop resilience without sacrificing yield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"82\">At the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040685.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>In Ghana&#8217;s Weta rice belt in the Volta Region, a quiet revolution is taking root&#8211;one that promises to redefine how rice is grown in our water-stressed, warming world. Through a pioneering collaboration between UK and Ghanaian scientists, rice farmers are embracing a climate-smart innovation called Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a scientifically validated irrigation technique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201793,"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":[258,256,51808,4309,5760,4508,4509,8226,257,15593,14191,5085,8418,20027,254,6722],"class_list":["post-201792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awd","tag-farming","tag-future","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-rethinking","tag-revolution","tag-rice","tag-saving","tag-securing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"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\/201792","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=201792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}