{"id":2774,"date":"2025-04-30T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:53:34","slug":"what-we-can-learn-about-green-belts-from-burkino-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/what-we-can-learn-about-green-belts-from-burkino-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Can Learn About Green Belts from Burkino Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The desert has claimed a third of Burkina Faso, but the residents of the nation\u2019s capital city are fighting back by circling the city with trees, vegetable plots and water tanks. The project holds back the desert, cools the city, and provides residents with a source of food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018We water, rest, water\u2019: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/06\/we-water-rest-water-the-green-belt-of-vegetable-plots-cooling-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/06\/we-water-rest-water-the-green-belt-of-vegetable-plots-cooling-a-city<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780865719187\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desert has claimed a third of Burkina Faso, but the residents of the nation\u2019s capital city are fighting back by circling the city with trees, vegetable plots and water tanks. The project holds back the desert, cools the city, and provides residents with a source of food. \u2018We water, rest, water\u2019: the green belt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/what-we-can-learn-about-green-belts-from-burkino-faso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What We Can Learn About Green Belts from Burkino Faso&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}