{"id":324,"date":"2016-03-21T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=324"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:40:01","slug":"drone-footage-of-community-flooding-and-coastal-erosion-in-the-volta-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2016\/03\/21\/drone-footage-of-community-flooding-and-coastal-erosion-in-the-volta-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage of community flooding and coastal erosion in the Volta delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 3rd 2016, the Daily Graphic, the main newspaper in Ghana, reported of destruction being caused by ocean waves in a number of communities within the Volta Delta, including Fuveme. In response to the news, the DECMMA Ghana team set out to verify the situation on 6th February 2016 and carried out a drone survey using DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows strong wave activities during high tide resulting in overtopping of the beach and flooding of the Fuveme community. Buildings were destroyed during the flooding, which rendered people homeless. Natural fish landing sites were also eroded. This has affected fishing business, which is the main source of livelihood in the community and resulted in migration from the community.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkILRW5zXbo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 3rd 2016, the Daily Graphic, the main newspaper in Ghana, reported of destruction being caused by ocean waves in a number of communities within the Volta Delta, including Fuveme. In response to the news, the DECMMA Ghana team set out to verify the situation on 6th February 2016 and carried out a drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,39,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-feature","category-volta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-5e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2257,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/04\/30\/new-short-film-sustainable-livelihoods-in-the-volta-delta-ghana\/","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":0},"title":"New short film-Sustainable livelihoods in the Volta delta, Ghana","author":"katharinevincent","date":"30th April 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Katharine Vincent The Volta delta in Ghana is a challenging place to live. 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