SaliHort
Adapted from the project website
PROJECT SUMMARY
The ESA Saline Agriculture Network initiative seeks to bring together scientists, technicians and agricultural practitioners to exchange experiences and create synergies while working towards the sustainable use and management of salt-affected agricultural soil resources in Eastern and Southern Africa. This shall be achieved through the implementation of applied agricultural research projects, topical publications, along with continuous networking and awareness raising activities.
Achievements so far:
- 3 years of practical piloting of Saline Agriculture techniques in open field vegetable production, following a Farmer Field School approach, having directly reached approximately 100 farmers
- 4 multi-institutional technical workshops on Saline Agriculture implemented
- 5 field excursions for knowledge sharing on soil salinity and its management in different production systems
- 2 international scientific conferences in which we participated
- 1 strategy paper on soil salinity and Saline Agriculture in Mozambique
- 9 university students successfully completed their theses research or internships on the topic of soil salinity management
- 1 international network on soil salinity in which we are active
- more than 15 institutions from 5 countries with which we established technical exchange on Saline Agriculture