{"id":91,"date":"2012-10-10T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/10\/climate-change-threatens-staple-crops\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:06:53","slug":"climate-change-threatens-staple-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/climate-change-threatens-staple-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Threatens Staple Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/cw\/\">ClimateWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beans and corn &#8212; the staples of the Central American diet &#8212; will become more difficult to grow as climate change progresses, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Certain &#8220;hot spots&#8221; that are especially vulnerable are spread throughout the region, especially in Honduras and western Nicaragua. But other spots, including many areas in eastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras, will become good adaptation areas for corn and beans through the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>However, Eitzinger said, moving production to these easily adaptable areas could create a land conflict with forests and risk the loss of trees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip: Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateactionreserve.org\/\">Climate Action Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ClimateWire: Beans and corn &#8212; the staples of the Central American diet &#8212; will become more difficult to grow as climate change progresses, according to a new study. &#8230; Certain &#8220;hot spots&#8221; that are especially vulnerable are spread throughout the region, especially in Honduras and western Nicaragua. But other spots, including many areas in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213,211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-conservation-areas-projects","7":"category-environmental-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}