{"id":6699,"date":"2017-09-20T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:47:21","slug":"new-project-to-aid-seaweed-rd-in-developing-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-project-to-aid-seaweed-rd-in-developing-nations.html","title":{"rendered":"New Project to Aid Seaweed R&amp;D in Developing Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative has received\u00a0funding\u00a0for\u00a0research and development\u00a0to address\u00a0disease\u00a0and pest infestations threatening the global seaweed industry, especially in developing countries.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5634 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The outbreaks are causing dramatic 15 per cent yield declines, particularly in three major seaweed-producing countries of Tanzania, Philippines and Indonesia, resulting in catastrophic socio-economic impacts on communities, according to the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/r-d\/news\/project-aid-seaweed-developing-nations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative has received\u00a0funding\u00a0for\u00a0research and development\u00a0to address\u00a0disease\u00a0and pest infestations threatening the global seaweed industry, especially in developing countries. The outbreaks are causing dramatic 15 per cent yield declines, particularly in three major seaweed-producing countries of Tanzania, Philippines and Indonesia, resulting in catastrophic socio-economic impacts on communities, according to the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,59],"tags":[136,568],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2","category-seaweed","tag-algae-research","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}