{"id":72896,"date":"2017-09-28T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-technology-in-china-turns-desert-into-land-rich-with-crops"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:02:32","slug":"new-technology-in-china-turns-desert-into-land-rich-with-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-technology-in-china-turns-desert-into-land-rich-with-crops","title":{"rendered":"New technology in China turns desert into land rich with crops"},"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\/cazVrq9v1mE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drawing a roadmap to combat the spread of deserts worldwide. It\u2019s the mission of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos. The host country, China, was praised for a law it passed in 2002 \u2014 the world\u2019s first integrated law dedicated to combating desert expansion. With this goal in mind, China has carried out several projects that have been successful, including at one desert in northern China. CGTN\u2019s Frances Kuo reports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cazVrq9v1mE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cazVrq9v1mE<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing a roadmap to combat the spread of deserts worldwide. It\u2019s the mission of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos. The host country, China, was praised for a law it passed in 2002 \u2014 the world\u2019s first integrated law dedicated to combating desert expansion. With this goal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72896","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}