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Climate change is making soils saltier, forcing many farmers to find new livelihoods

  • Written by Joyce J. Chen, Associate Professor of Development Economics, The Ohio State University
Climate change is making soils saltier, forcing many farmers to find new livelihoodsExperimental field of a salt-tolerant rice variety in Bangladesh. IRRI, CC BY-NC-SA

Salt is essential for cooking, but too much salt in soil can ruin crops and render fields useless. According to legend, Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus sowed the soils of Carthage with salt after conquering the city during the Punic Wars. And after...

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