{"id":866,"date":"2014-03-10T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=866"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:36:23","slug":"whats-all-the-buzz-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/whats-all-the-buzz-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s all the buzz about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Auburn water researchers using bees to help Kenya with<\/em> nutrition, income and <em>river protection (source: Auburn Daily, 3\/4\/2014)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>In Kenya, traditional cultures place a high value on honey and related products of the beehive. In the past it was part of the dowry or &#8220;bride price&#8221; for marriage, and a man needed to have at least 20 liters of choice honey to present to a prospective father-in-law when asking for his daughter&#8217;s hand. More than just a tradition, this commodity could be the key to improving many aspects of Kenyan lives. Auburn University&#8217;s Global Water Watch has joined with Kenya&#8217;s Green Belt Movement to find innovative ways of linking honey production with improved nutrition, higher incomes, community development and river protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_867\" style=\"width: 944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/03\/12840253724_fcd9486a51_b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"size-full wp-image-867\" alt=\"Auburn's Global Water Watch has joined with Kenya's Green Belt Movement to find innovative ways of linking honey production with improved nutrition, higher incomes, community development and river protection.\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/03\/12840253724_fcd9486a51_b1.jpg\" width=\"934\" height=\"679\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auburn&#8217;s Global Water Watch has joined with Kenya&#8217;s Green Belt Movement to find innovative ways of linking honey production with improved nutrition, higher incomes, community development and river protection.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ocm.auburn.edu\/featured_story\/beekeeping.html\">CLICK HERE for the complete story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn water researchers using bees to help Kenya with nutrition, income and river protection (source: Auburn Daily, 3\/4\/2014) In Kenya, traditional cultures place a high value on honey and related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}