{"id":1803,"date":"2018-03-23T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:14:46","slug":"22-march-2018-weather-information-services-for-successful-local-agriculture-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/22-march-2018-weather-information-services-for-successful-local-agriculture-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"22 march 2018: Weather Information Services for successful local agriculture in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food security for Africa is an urgent global challenge. The main cause of food insecurity is inadequate food production. New weather services are key to produce food more efficiently and of higher quality. On March 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a02018 Weather Impact hosted a seminar to join leading experts from the fields of meteorology, hydrology and African agriculture. The seminar, named \u201cWeather-information services for successful local agriculture in Africa\u201d gave a platform to professionals at the forefront of science and practise. They addressed crucial opportunities and challenges of achieving successful local agriculture in African countries. In the &#8220;open space&#8221; workshop that followed to the plenary speakers, we discussed practical challenges, opportunities and solutions to improve local agricultural productivity in African countries. Due to the large variety in the expertises of the participants and their active contributions we are looking back to a very succesful day. The results of the discussions will be summarized and will become available via the <a href=\"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/seminar-22-march-2018\/\">seminar web-page<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1804\" src=\"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P3226220_small-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food security for Africa is an urgent global challenge. The main cause of food insecurity is inadequate food production. New weather services are key to produce food more efficiently and of higher quality. On March 22nd\u00a02018 Weather Impact hosted a seminar to join leading experts from the fields of meteorology, hydrology and African agriculture. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}