{"id":31292,"date":"2026-11-12T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=31292"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:32:52","slug":"ocha-drought-has-pushed-livelihoods-to-the-brink-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/11\/ocha-drought-has-pushed-livelihoods-to-the-brink-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Drought has pushed livelihoods to the brink in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has said that communities on the frontlines of climate change have contributed the least to causing the crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Thursday (Nov. 12), the agency said that drought and water scarcity have pushed people&#8217;s lives and livelihoods to the brink in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to OCHA, climate financing must be accessible, equitable and directed towards the areas where it is needed most.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency had previously stated that Afghanistan is the sixth most vulnerable country to climate change, despite contributing the least to the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has said that communities on the frontlines of climate change have contributed the least to causing the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,9,30,6],"tags":[12,552,534,727,2365],"class_list":["post-31292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-soceity","category-environment","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-ocha","tag-water-scarcity"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31292"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31301,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions\/31301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}