{"id":1210,"date":"2017-09-04T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2017-09-04T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:23:29","slug":"1210-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Agricultural investment is the path to our sustainable future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Devex.com this opinion article by <i class=\"caption margin-top-medium text-gray-li\">\u00a0<a class=\"text-gray-li\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/authors\/1205524\">Yvonne Harz-Pitre<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>points out how investments in agriculture \u2014 the dominant occupation for the world\u2019s poorest people \u2014 can help us make great strides on many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG&#8217;s).\u00a0This sector alone accounts for\u00a0<a class=\"c3\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/opendata\/chart-globally-70-freshwater-used-agriculture\">70 percent of water use<\/a>. It often becomes a casualty of climate change, but is also emits significant greenhouse gases. It employs millions of women \u2014 who, if given access to the same resources as men, could feed an extra\u00a0<a class=\"c3\" href=\"https:\/\/farmingfirst.org\/women_infographic\/\">150 million people<\/a>\u00a0in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/opinion-investment-in-agriculture-is-at-the-heart-of-sustainable-development-success-90606\">Devex website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/tblidaily.com\/#\/\">TBI daily for the news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Devex.com this opinion article by \u00a0Yvonne Harz-Pitre\u00a0points out how investments in agriculture \u2014 the dominant occupation for the world\u2019s poorest people \u2014 can help us make great strides on many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG&#8217;s).\u00a0This sector alone accounts for\u00a070 percent of water use. It often becomes a casualty of climate change, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opinion: Agricultural investment is the path to our sustainable future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}