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Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20% of all irrigated lands \u2014 an area equal to size of France; Extensive costs include $27 billion+ in lost crop value \/ year. UNU study identifies ways to reverse damage, says every hectare needed to feed world\u2019s fast-growing population.\u00a0Every day for more than 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt, according to a new study \u2014 Economics of Salt-induced Land Degradation and Restoration \u2014 published today by the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3758","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorld losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20% of all irrigated lands \u2014 an area equal to size of France; Extensive costs include $27 billion+ in lost crop value \/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=world-losing-hectares-of-farm-soil-daily-to-salt-damage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage - Revolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20% of all irrigated lands \u2014 an area equal to size of France; 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