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How Food Growers in Bangladesh and Spain Are Adapting to Increasingly Salty Conditions

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Farmers with salt-affected land are turning to saline agriculture.

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The UN Food and Agriculture organization says that in the next 25 years, salinity will affect more than half of the arable land around the globe. Growers in regions where the soil has gotten too salty are adapting. With support from the Pulitzer Center, reporter Rachel Parsons went to Bangladesh and Spain to see how farmers in both places are adapting. 



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