Soil salinity - influences and remediation

Currently, the entire world is facing major challenges related to increasing populations that must be fed, depletion of natural resources, impact of environmental factors, and climate changes. All these challenges are important, but food and natural resources shortages are becoming increasingly stringent.
Both external and internal changes put increasing pressure on the sustainability of the agri-food system. External pressures on this system result from demographic, economic and environmental changes such as globalization, climate change, and scarcity of resources.
Salt-affected soils cover about 6% of the world’s lands, which is mainly due to either natural causes or human-induced causes that affect about 2% (32 million ha) of dryland farmed areas and 20% (45 million ha) of irrigated lands globally.

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Newsletter on soil salinity () Currently, the entire world is facing major challenges related to increasing populations that must be fed, depletion of natural resources, impact of environmental factors, and climate changes. All these challenges are important, but food and natural resources shortages are becoming increasingly stringent. Both external and internal changes put increasing pressure on the sustainability of the agri-food system. External pressures on this system result from demographic, economic and environmental changes such as globalization, climate change, and scarcity of resources. On the other hand, the structure, texture and properties of the soil are deteriorated as a result of intensive conventional agriculture based on the addition of fertilizers, chemical amendments, synthetic phyto pesticide products.

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Activity type

Publication of newsletter

Activity work package

Project management

Activity number

USAMV-WP1-A33

Activity contact

Dr. Carmen Constatin, USAMV Bucharest, [email protected]

Activity partner

USAMV Bucharest

Activity country

Romania

Last edit

04-12-2019