Poor soil fertility meant low yields and insufficient income for soybean farmers in the West African nation of Benin. With support from the IAEA and FAO, researchers at the University of Abomey-Calavi ...

The IAEA, in collaboration with FAO, is working with countries that lose land to salinity on developing climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate soil salinity and preserve agricultural land.

Soil salinity, a critical factor underpinning land degradation and diminishing agricultural productivity, poses a major threat to global food security and environmental sustainability.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will soon initiate projects to improve soil quality in areas with saline and water-logged soils, FAO country representative Dr Kevin Gallagher said on ...

Salinity is a rising threat to global agriculture, severely limiting crop productivity and damaging soil health. New research reveals how the ...

Soil salinity threatens our future. Thursday, 30 October 2014 | Kota Sriraj. A recent UN study has found that 20 per cent of all irrigated lands globally, an area equal to the size of France, has ...

Pakistan has an agricultural land area of 22 million hectares, out of a total land area of 79.7m hectares, of which 6.67m hectares are affected by soil salinity and sodicity, the assessment reveals.

According to the FAO, salinity eliminates up to 3.7 million acres of farmland from production globally every year, and it decreases the yield of nearly 113 million acres a year.

Soil salinity, impacting about 1 billion square hectometers worldwide, significantly hinders crop growth. Plants counteract this through signaling pathways involving molecules such as H2O2 and ABA.

FAO and IWMI co-launched “Water Quality in Agriculture: Risks and Risk Mitigation” at the Rome Water Dialogue on October 5, 2023. This landmark publication, by a team of international experts ...