Salt Farm Foundation

Adapted from the project website

The approach

Worldwide, less land is available for agriculture due to salinisation.

Salinisation is the increase of salt concentration in soil and is caused by the supply of water containing dissolved salts. This supply of water can be caused by flooding of the land by seawater, or sea water seeping through the soil from below. Due to climate change, sea levels are rising, which further increases the amount of seawater to come inland. which causes salinisation to become an increasing problem worldwide.

As a result, crops no longer grow in the salt-affected areas.

Farmers are unable to use their lands, which causes famine, poverty and social disruption. The world population is growing tremendously, and so is the demand for food. But the reality is that the amount of land suitable for agriculture continues to reduce. Large areas of agricultural lands are lost every day due to salinisation, land that is much needed for food production to feed the growing world population.

Salt Farm Foundation provide a solution to this growing problem.

Instead of trying to reduce the salt concentration in the soil, the Salt Farm Foundation provides ways to (re)use the salt-affected soils for agriculture. They give farmers in need, the knowledge and means in order to practise saline agriculture. They can help make the degraded land productive again. By introducing natural varieties of well-known crops that are salt tolerant, farmers can use their lands again.