{"id":25632,"date":"2025-10-27T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25632"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:19:31","slug":"miombo-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/miombo-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Miombo forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Miombo forest:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Miombo is a biome that includes <strong>tropical and subtropical grasslands, bushlands<\/strong>, and savannahs.<\/li>\n<li>It is a vast <strong>African dryland forest ecosystem<\/strong> covering close to 2.7 million square kilometres across southern Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/li>\n<li>The woodlands are characterized by the <strong>dominance of Brachystegia species<\/strong>, either alone or in association with Julbernardia and Isoberlinia species.<\/li>\n<li>It also encompasses <strong>four bio-regions<\/strong> and is responsible for maintaining the <strong>Greater Zambezi<\/strong>, one of the most important transnational river basins.<\/li>\n<li>It is facilitating trade in the border region between <strong>Mozambique and Zimbabwe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of this forest:<\/strong> This forest is vital for millions of people in rural areas, providing essential resources such as firewood, food, and water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Food and Agriculture Organization<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>specialized agency<\/strong> of the <strong>United Nations<\/strong> that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security.<\/li>\n<li>Its goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member countries:<\/strong> With 195 members &#8211; 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Its sister bodies are the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/un-world-food-programme-wfp\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Food Programme (WFP)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-fund-for-agricultural-development-ifad\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong> Rome (Italy).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Biome?<\/h3>\n<p>A biome is an area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/africa\/new-projects-to-safeguard-miombo-forest-boost-food-security-in-mozambique-zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New projects to safeguard Miombo forest, boost food security in Mozambique &amp; Zimbabwe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miombo forest is a biome that includes tropical and subtropical grasslands, bushlands, and savannahs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}