Salinity poses serious threats to landscapes across the globe, decreasing the capacity of all
types of terrestrial ecosystems in providing services by threatening our biodiversity, lowering …

By affecting 10% of the world's total arable land, soil salinity has become a potential threat to
feeding the exploding population. As per the current scenario, among 1,125 million hectares …

Salinization of productive croplands and fresh water is essentially a threefold setback,
reducing the soil productivity, necessitating unwarranted expenditure on reclamation and …

Soil salinity is a common problem of the developing world as well as the developed world.
However, the pace to reduce salinity is much slower in the developing world. The …

Excessive concentration of soluble salts in soils adversely affects agricultural lands and
crops and subsequently the livelihood of people all around the world. More than 100 …

Food and nutritional security of the ever-growing world population in an era of climate
change, widespread environmental degradation, water scarcity and the loss of productive …

Approximately 1 billion ha of the global land surface is currently salt-affected, representing
about 7% of the earth's land surface. Whereas most of it results from natural geochemical …

The expansion of irrigated agriculture is of paramount importance to feed the burgeoning
global population. However, without proper management, this expansion can result in …

Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world's attention particularly
because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are …

Expanding problems of soil salinity and waterlogging have become serious issues of
concern as they affect productivity and threaten the very sustainability of agriculture. The …