{"id":493914,"date":"2018-07-04T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3b6b806f481a65cec239ed4ff2c32dff"},"modified":"2018-07-04T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:00:03","slug":"in-india-swapping-crops-could-save-water-and-improve-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=493914","title":{"rendered":"In India, swapping crops could save water and improve nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will need to feed approximately 394 million more people by 2050, and that&#8217;s going to be a significant challenge. Nutrient deficiencies are already widespread in India today\u201430 percent or more are anemic\u2014and many regions are chronically water-stressed. Making matters worse, evidence suggests that monsoons are delivering less rainfall than they used to. But a study published today in Science Advances shares a brighter outlook: replacing some rice with less thirsty crops could dramatically reduce water demand in India, while also improving nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will need to feed approximately 394 million more people by 2050, and that&#8217;s going to be a significant challenge. Nutrient deficiencies are already widespread in India today&mdash;30 percent or more are anemic&mdash;and many regions are chronically water-stressed. Making matters worse, evidence suggests that monsoons are delivering less rainfall than they used to. But a study published today in Science Advances shares a brighter outlook: replacing some rice with less thirsty crops could dramatically reduce water demand in India, while also improving nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493915,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493914\/revisions\/493915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}