Published October 22, 2021 | Version 2021
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Salt-Affected Soils in Italy

Creators

  • 1. CNR-IBE, Institute of BioEconomy, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 2. CREA, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente, Florence, Italy
  • 3. CREA, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente, Rome, Italy
  • 4. CREA, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente, Florence , Italy
  • 5. Servizio Geologico, Sismico e dei Suoli, Direzione Generale Cura del Territorio e dell'Ambiente, Bologna, Italy
  • 6. AGRIS Sardegna, Servizio Studi Ambientali, Servizio Ricerca Studi ambientali, Difesa delle colture e Qualità delle produzioni - Settore Suolo, Territorio e Ambiente, Cagliari, Italy
  • 7. ARPAV, Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione e Protezione Ambientale del Veneto, Centro Veneto Suolo e Bonifiche, Treviso, Italy
  • 8. Consorzio LaMMA, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 9. ERSAF, Ente Regionale per i Servizi all'Agricoltura e alle Foreste, Milan, Italy
  • 10. Giunta Regione Marche, Servizio Politiche Agroalimentari, P.O. Monitoraggio Suoli, Treia, Italy
  • 11. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
  • 12. Dipartimento dei Sistemi Agro-Ambientali, Facoltà di Agraria, Università di Palermo, Italy
  • 13. CREA-PB, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di ricerca di Politiche e Bioeconomia, Rome, Italy

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  • 1. CREA Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria

Description

Soil salinization and sodification risks are two of the main threats in agricultural soils of Italy
(Dazzi, 2008). In Italy they are mainly due to irrigation with saline waters (Dazzi and Lo Papa,
2013), to seawater intrusion (Castrignanò et al., 2008, Dazzi and Lo Papa, 2013, Selvaggi et al.,
2010), and to saline parent materials (Dazzi and Fierotti, 1994). The water level is strictly regulated
by channels and pumping stations (Vittori Antisari et al., 2020; Buscaroli and Zannoni, 2010;
Teatini et al., 2007), and seawater intrusion along rivers, canals and in the groundwater aquifer is
exacerbated by subsidence (Teatini et al., 2005). The salt-rich parent material can be exposed due
to soil erosion (Piccarreta et al., 2006; Cocco et al., 2015). In the last decades, several Italian regional
authorities for soil data produced soil salinity (risk) maps, resorting to different mapping
approaches. Previous examples of salinity risk maps of Italy have been also attempted (Dazzi, 2008,
Costantini et al. 2009). This works presents the maps of salt-affected soils of Italy, as part of the 1k
grid GSSmap, realized adopting the procedure proposed by the Global Soil Partnership (GSP), and
involving the Italian regional authorities, which are part of the Italian Soil Partnership.

Notes

Acknowledgements We acknowledge the Italian Soil Partnership for the collaboration and the project SoilHUB (DM Mipaaf n. 35851 05/11/2019) for the financial support. The following regional authorities are particularly acknowledged for data provision and validation of the results: Raffaele Cherchi, General Director, and Gianni Piredda, Director of the Service for Environmental Researches of AGRIS (Sardinia); the General Direction of ARPAV (Veneto); the General Direction of ERSA (Friuli Venezia Giulia); Bernardo Gozzini, the General Administrator of LaMMA Consortium (Tuscany); Lorenzo Bisogni, the Director of the Agroenvironmental Policies (Marche); Monica Guida, Director of the Geological, Seismic and Soil Service (Emilia Romagna), Sandra di Ferdinando, Director of the Service for Characterization of Quality Productions of ARSIAL (Lazio); Domenico Campanile, and Francesco Bellino, Service for the Sustainable Management of Environmental Resources (Apulia). We acknowledge for the data provision the private enterprise SO.IN.G. s.r.l. and its Director Annalisa Morelli. The views expressed in this information product are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of FAO.

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