{"id":187748,"date":"2025-01-02T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-mena-region-most-affected-by-soil-salinity-fao\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:27:59","slug":"tunisia-mena-region-most-affected-by-soil-salinity-fao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-mena-region-most-affected-by-soil-salinity-fao\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Mena Region Most Affected By Soil Salinity &#8211; FAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Tunis, Jan. 1 \u2014 Soil salinity poses a major challenge to agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Tunisia, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its report on the global status of salt-affected soils. The total area of salt-affected land in the region is 2,303,461 km2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">According to the report, which is the first major assessment of the organisation of salt-affected soils since 1950,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501020022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, Jan. 1 \u2014 Soil salinity poses a major challenge to agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Tunisia, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its report on the global status of salt-affected soils. The total area of salt-affected land in the region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[7104,258,256,6001,24380,257,6324,50317,19894,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-187748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-affected","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fao","tag-mena","tag-news","tag-region","tag-salinity","tag-soil","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}