{"id":5178,"date":"2026-01-07T19:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:51:36","slug":"how-the-climate-crisis-is-changing-an-ancient-way-of-life-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/07\/how-the-climate-crisis-is-changing-an-ancient-way-of-life-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"How the climate crisis is changing an ancient way of life in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recurring droughts and extreme weather are forcing traditional pastoralists in Ethiopia&#8217;s Afar region to abandon their nomadic lifestyles for farming. With droughts now occurring almost annually rather than every decade, families can no longer rely solely on livestock for survival. Aid organizations are helping communities adapt to this &#8220;agro-pastoral&#8221; way of life, though funding cuts threaten these resilience programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 2, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/ethiopia-climate-crisis-drought-flood-b2851749.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recurring droughts and extreme weather are forcing traditional pastoralists in Ethiopia&#8217;s Afar region to abandon their nomadic lifestyles for farming. With droughts now occurring almost annually rather than every decade, families can no longer rely solely on livestock for survival. Aid organizations are helping communities adapt to this &#8220;agro-pastoral&#8221; way of life, though funding cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}