{"id":4532,"date":"2025-05-19T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:04:19","slug":"assessing-the-impact-of-climate-variability-on-wheat-yield-in-bloemfontein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/assessing-the-impact-of-climate-variability-on-wheat-yield-in-bloemfontein\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the impact of climate variability on wheat yield in Bloemfontein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Vincent Mohale, Sol Plaatjie University<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr Ibidun Obagbuwa<\/p><p>Bloemfontein, a city, where wheat has long been a culinary cornerstone, faces a silent transformation which is underway. Wheat, the bedrock of staples like bread, cereals, and the essence of beverages such as beer and whiskey, now faces a challenging foe: climatechange.<br>In this study, we delve into the heart of this global staple, unravelling the complex web of connections that link climate change to wheat yield in Bloemfontein.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-2048x1229.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187444043-Vincent-Mohale-41253_Vincent_Mohale_Poster_18079_1702823940-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Vincent Mohale, Sol Plaatjie UniversitySupervisor: Dr Ibidun Obagbuwa Bloemfontein, a city, where wheat has long been a culinary cornerstone, faces a silent transformation which is underway. Wheat, the bedrock of staples like bread, cereals, and the essence of beverages such as beer and whiskey, now faces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}