We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think 

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Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started:
soil salinity - when soils have high salt levels that have adverse effects on plants
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Created by: Henry Reich (@minutephysics)
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Peter Reich
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Video Illustrator: Omkar Bhagat
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References:
Hillel, Daniel. (2000). Salinity management for sustainable irrigation: integrating science, environment, and economics. Environmentally and socially sustainable development series. Rural development*ESSD Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development Work in Progress. Washington, D.C. The World Bank. documents.worldbank.org/curate...
Pitman, M. G., & Läuchli, A. (2002). Global impact of salinity and agricultural ecosystems. In Salinity: environment-plants-molecules (pp. 3-20). Springer Netherlands.
Qadir, M., Quillérou, E., Nangia, V., Murtaza, G., Singh, M., Thomas, R.J., Drechsel, P. and Noble, A.D. (2014). Economics of salt-induced land degradation and restoration. Natural Resources Forum, 38: 282-295. doi: 10.1111/1477-8947.12054
Schofield, N. J. (1992). Tree planting for dryland salinity control in Australia. Agroforestry Systems, 20(1-2), 1-23.
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