{"id":205445,"date":"2025-08-25T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-amid-worsening-droughts-and-crop-failure-zambians-call-for-collective-climate-action\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:35:26","slug":"zambia-amid-worsening-droughts-and-crop-failure-zambians-call-for-collective-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-amid-worsening-droughts-and-crop-failure-zambians-call-for-collective-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Amid Worsening Droughts and Crop Failure, Zambians Call for Collective Climate Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nine out of 10 citizens who have heard of climate change say it is making their lives worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than eight in 10 Zambians say that crop failure (85%) and droughts (82%) have grown more severe in their area over the past 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>One-fourth or more report having to adjust their lives in response to changing weather patterns by using less water or changing water sources (34%), changing the types of crops they plant or the food they eat (30%), reducing or rescheduling outdoor work&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250407.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine out of 10 citizens who have heard of climate change say it is making their lives worse. Key findings More than eight in 10 Zambians say that crop failure (85%) and droughts (82%) have grown more severe in their area over the past 10 years. One-fourth or more report having to adjust their lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205446,"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":[825],"tags":[6394,258,256,6880,6239,10163,13000,18023,5631,257,254,9273,4709,881,9005],"class_list":["post-205445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-climate","tag-collective","tag-crop","tag-droughts","tag-failure","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worsening","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"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\/205445","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=205445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}