{"id":222733,"date":"2026-02-04T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-amid-worsening-drought-and-crop-failure-zimbabweans-support-government-investment-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure-green-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:09:21","slug":"zimbabwe-amid-worsening-drought-and-crop-failure-zimbabweans-support-government-investment-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-amid-worsening-drought-and-crop-failure-zimbabweans-support-government-investment-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Amid Worsening Drought and Crop Failure, Zimbabweans Support Government Investment in Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, Green Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Most citizens say rich countries should help Zimbabwe respond to climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vast majorities of Zimbabweans say that crop failure (95%) and droughts (94%) have become &#8220;somewhat more severe&#8221; or &#8220;much more severe&#8221; in their region over the past decade, while 61% say floods have become less intense.<\/li>\n<li>Asked whether they have had to adapt to changing weather patterns, more than one-third of respondents say they reduced their water consumption or altered their water source (45%),&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030426.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>Most citizens say rich countries should help Zimbabwe respond to climate crisis. Key findings Vast majorities of Zimbabweans say that crop failure (95%) and droughts (94%) have become &#8220;somewhat more severe&#8221; or &#8220;much more severe&#8221; in their region over the past decade, while 61% say floods have become less intense. Asked whether they have had [&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":[258,256,48657,13000,4787,7424,5631,6427,12626,9864,6018,257,254,6096,9273,4686,421,1487],"class_list":["post-222733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-climateresilient","tag-crop","tag-drought","tag-energy","tag-failure","tag-government","tag-green","tag-infrastructure","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-worsening","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733","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=222733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222733\/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=222733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}