{"id":123381,"date":"2021-06-03T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dutch-scientists-close-to-breakthrough-method-of-growing-crops-in-deserts"},"modified":"2021-06-03T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:26:04","slug":"dutch-scientists-close-to-breakthrough-method-of-growing-crops-in-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dutch-scientists-close-to-breakthrough-method-of-growing-crops-in-deserts","title":{"rendered":"Dutch scientists close to \u2018breakthrough\u2019 method of growing crops in deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4CMfPLEtQMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists in the Netherlands say they are close to a breakthrough which will allow crops to be grown in deserts. Many say this could completely alter life on the African continent and even end hunger.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders meeting at the climate talks in Germany are being urged to commit to more funding for new agricultural projects in drought-stricken parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Laurence Lee reports from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>- Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/aje.io\/AJSubscribe.\">http:\/\/aje.io\/AJSubscribe.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dutch-scientists-close-to-breakthrough-method-of-growing-crops-in-deserts\">Continue reading \u201cDutch scientists close to \u2018breakthrough\u2019 method of growing crops in deserts\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Scientists in the Netherlands say they are close to a breakthrough which will allow crops to be grown in deserts. Many say this could completely alter life on the African continent and even end hunger. World leaders meeting at the climate talks in Germany are being urged to commit to more funding for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}