{"id":20556,"date":"2021-12-01T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/12\/01\/in-rwanda-government-policies-encourage-milk-consumption\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:04:24","slug":"in-rwanda-government-policies-encourage-milk-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/12\/01\/in-rwanda-government-policies-encourage-milk-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"In Rwanda, government policies encourage milk consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Every morning in the Rwandan capital Kigali, long queues\u00a0appear outside milk bars,\u00a0where people come to socialise and unwind over large pints of ikivuguto,\u00a0a fermented milk mixed with honey. Milk drinking became engrained in the country&rsquo;s culture as the result of\u00a0a government policy initiated after the 1994 genocide\u00a0to revive the economy and fight malnutrition. In 2006, the government set up the Girinka\u00a0programme, in a bid\u00a0to ensure that even the poorest families were able to afford a cow.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning in the Rwandan capital Kigali, long queues\u00a0appear outside milk bars,\u00a0where people come to socialise and unwind over large pints of ikivuguto,\u00a0a fermented milk mixed with honey. Milk drinking became engrained in the country&rsquo;s culture as the result of\u00a0a government policy initiated after the 1994 genocide\u00a0to revive the economy and fight malnutrition. In 2006, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-20556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}