If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil salinity is a major global challenge impacting plant ...

Accurate assessment of soil salinity is critical for sustainable agriculture and food security, yet remains technically challenging at fine spatial scales.

Many nutrients in soil exist as salts, soluble and available for plant uptake. But when salts accumulate in excess, crop growth can decline. With more frequent surface flooding in coastal fields and ...

Saltwater intrusion from sea level rise and tidal flooding is increasing soil salinity risks in coastal farm fields (Figure 1). Soil salinity is related to the presence of soluble salts and cations ...

Notes: the subfigure shows an example of acidic soil areas defined by the World Reference Base for Soil Resources; the scatterplot shows the salt content of soil samples in five climate regions. A ...

A District-Level Workshop on Integrated Soil Health Management for Salinity Mitigation was organized by Humara Bachpan Trust at the CDAO Conference Hall, Puri, bringing together senior ...

This phenomenon is most notable in the Western part of the country where major irrigation schemes are located. Out of a total area of 140,000 hectares in this part of Algeria, 30% consists of very ...

New Mexico State University will host a free workshop to give participants new techniques to maximize irrigation efficiency.  An Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems Project, or ...

Soil salinity threatens agricultural productivity across 30–35 percent of Egypt’s irrigated land, over 1.8 million hectares, worsening water scarcity and undermining rural livelihoods in a sector that ...