{"id":4499,"date":"2022-04-06T20:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/?page_id=4499"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:44:08","slug":"benin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/where-we-operate\/benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benin is a small country in West Africa, where the poverty rate is still high despite the economic growth of the last 10 years. In recent years, the north has suffered from prolonged droughts and the south from devastating floods. The main culprits are climate change, urbanisation, deforestation, the destruction of mangroves, and increased demand for water and agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>Cities and urbanisation have caused water use to triple in recent decades. The original dense forest has declined by more than 50% since 2013. Mangroves that form a natural buffer against erosion and flooding along the coast are being destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benin is a small country in West Africa, where the poverty rate is still high despite the economic growth of the last 10 years. In recent years, the north has suffered from prolonged droughts and the south from devastating floods. The main culprits are climate change, urbanisation, deforestation, the destruction of mangroves, and increased demand [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/where-we-operate\/benin\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2179,"parent":4072,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-land.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4499","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4499\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joinforwater.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}