{"id":7067975,"date":"2026-09-27T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/guest-article-theres-a-market-for-saline-agriculture-it-just-needs-a-boost\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:17:12","slug":"guest-article-theres-a-market-for-saline-agriculture-it-just-needs-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7067975","title":{"rendered":"Guest article: There\u2019s a market for saline agriculture. It just needs a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Rich Bellis completed an MSc. in environment and resource management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in June 2026, focusing on food system transformation. His 15-year business journalism experience includes staff editor roles at NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of AgFunderNews.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Saline agriculture has a supply and demand problem.<\/p>\n<p>Years of research and field trials have demonstrated many ways to grow crops sustainably in saline conditions. But even as punishing droughts, saltwater intrusion and intensive irrigation threaten to drive up salinity, commercial recognition of the problem remains weak, and so does the nascent market for solutions to it.<\/p>\n<p>The FAO estimates that elevated soil salinity already affects nearly 1.4 billion hectares worldwide, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/north-america\/news\/details\/fao-launches-first-major-global-assessment-of-salt-affected-soils-in-50-years\/en\">at least 10% of global land<\/a>. Salinization is forecast to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/north-america\/news\/details\/fao-launches-first-major-global-assessment-of-salt-affected-soils-in-50-years\/en\">keep chipping away<\/a> at the productivity of key agricultural regions and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/saltwater-flooding-could-radically-change-which-crops-are-worth-growing-284213\">scrambling farm economics<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t help that \u201csaline agriculture\u201d is mainly thought of as series of steps producers can take to adapt to salinity, overlooking the constellation of businesses purpose-built to grow food on salt-affected land. Nor that these diverse enterprises currently lack a collective vision for their role in the next-generation food system they\u2019re striving to build.<\/p>\n<p>This is the picture that arose from interviews with 15 such businesses in eight countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Some grow salt-loving \u201chalophyte\u201d plants, like salicornia and saltbush, in settings from coastal deltas to arid interiors. Others are biotech and agrochemical firms improving salt-tolerance in rice or potatoes, irrigation consultancies and desalination technology providers. Yet in research the IVM Institute for Environmental Studies in Amsterdam <a href=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/en\/publications\/saline-agricultures-market-pathways-stakeholder-analysis-of-busin\/\">recently published<\/a> in a report I coauthored with Dr. Kate Negacz, ties across this ecosystem proved uneven: While halophyte farmers form a tight-knit niche, some operators focusing on conventional crops are scarcely aware of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, one common thread emerged: Most of these actors said market development challenges were holding back their ambitions to scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all comes down to demand,\u201d a small salicornia grower said. (All were granted anonymity to discuss their businesses for research purposes.) \u201cWe\u2019re investing into marketing and spreading awareness about how efficient and good of a plant this is.\u201d But these costly efforts would make \u201cbetter sense in terms of numbers and farming when we have better demand,\u201d he said, \u201crather than simply burning money.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57826\" style=\"width: 1365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57826\" src=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-2285841773-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Carpobrotus edulis<\/em>, also known as highway ice, thrives in high-salt environments. Image credit: iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>Putting salinity on the map<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Among climate-adaptive agriculture\u2019s top targets, from extreme heat to freshwater scarcity, salinization is something of an ugly duckling.<\/p>\n<p>The problem has been rigorously studied but rarely makes headlines, and entrepreneurs routinely described how hard it\u2019s been to put salinity-focused interventions on the map. One biotech addressing multiple abiotic stressors said that salinity was currently the \u201cleast priority.\u201d Even at gatherings like the annual UN conference on desertification that wrapped up in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, recently, salinization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/news-stories\/press-releases\/unccd-cop17-advances-new-pathways-land-restoration-drought-resilience\">hasn\u2019t seemed to feature prominently<\/a> in discussions of land degradation.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this may reflect what\u2019s easy to notice on the ground. \u201cWhen the blight is killing your field, [farmers] see it,\u201d one seed treatment expert said in the study. \u201cThe heat, they feel when it\u2019s very warm and they see that the crop needs water.\u201d Salt buildup is stealthier. It can require special instruments to diagnose and tends to progress gradually, unlike a heat wave, disease outbreak or storm surge.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean the responses offered by saline agriculture ventures are a lost cause. Many providers of these solutions said demand was rising, albeit more slowly than hoped. Most said their ability to innovate and experiment, find collaborators and valuable resources was relatively strong. In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/brussels\/news\/news-detail\/fao-underscores-urgent-need-to-close-agrifood-systems-financing-gap-at-the-2026-forum-for-the-future-of-agriculture\/en\">chronic funding shortfalls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14735903.2024.2329388\">bankability constraints<\/a> that have long plagued agrifood (<a href=\"https:\/\/sustaincostaction.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Policy-Brief-WG5-D.5.3.21.pdf\">including in saline agriculture<\/a>) weren\u2019t described as a primary obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, weak awareness, steep customer acquisition costs and the chicken-and-egg dilemma of how and whether to invest in the large operational buildouts needed to secure major supplier contracts were core challenges. Even so, many saline agriculture entrepreneurs insisted they were ready to scale up, if only they could generate sufficient revenue growth and sustained adoption. Most were admirably committed to sticking it out even if they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u2018How do we get into the boardrooms?\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Research and policy around saline agriculture has been well-attuned to the idiosyncrasies of dealing with salinity, and for good reason: The problem has multiple causes; what works in one crop or region\u2014or even on a single plot\u2014may fail in another; and contextual factors like local production methods and market dynamics vary just as widely. Yet much less attention has been paid to the shared barriers operators face to commercializing their interventions.<\/p>\n<p>This gap matters. Indeed, many of the same market-development challenges were identified repeatedly among vastly different businesses in the study, and these resembled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ederalab.com\/foodtech-white-paper\">some of the most common obstacles<\/a> faced by maturing startups and scale-ups across the agrifood industry. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveur.com\/culture\/seaweed-farming-future\/\">They map almost identically<\/a>, for instance, onto the demand issues seen in the adjacent category of seaweed aquaculture.) What\u2019s more, saline agriculture operators frequently viewed business models that could crack these traction problems as the most scalable. They placed comparatively less emphasis on sales growth, cash flow and other more conventional metrics.<\/p>\n<p>Some entrepreneurs voiced deep frustration, bordering on disbelief, that market development has proved so difficult. Many see their paths to scale as running through, rather than around, incumbent firms and believe corporate partnerships should be easier to come by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we get into the boardrooms of these companies? How do we do it?\u201d one experienced halophyte grower asked rhetorically. \u201cI thought it would all happen organically\u2026but it hasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This disappointment reflects operators\u2019 firm conviction in the value\u2014commercial, social and ecological\u2014of their products and services. A developer of desalination and greenhouse infrastructure for arid environments described his approach as a simple, clearly superior alternative to drilling ever deeper irrigation wells in the desert. But the market kept saying otherwise. \u201cI\u2019m a slightly lonely voice bleating in the wind,\u201d he said, \u201cand nobody\u2019s listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57825\" style=\"width: 1183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57825\" src=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1183\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897.jpg 1183w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iStock-1177441897-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1183px) 100vw, 1183px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saltbush plants are adaptable to many soils, including those with high saline content. Image credit: iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>Sustainability, broadly defined<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>One halophyte grower operating in an abandoned salt flat described herself as pioneering a form of farming that ticked multiple boxes\u2014sustainably cultivating undervalued, nutrient-rich crops with multiple uses, all while restoring an ecosystem and valorizing land that\u2019s otherwise worthless. \u201cWe are preparing the future, that\u2019s why we started this,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd because they are super-plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this and other entrepreneurs, sustainability was a core motivator. In fact, none of the 15 operators said they were in it primarily to make money. Even those who saw their businesses as moonshot bets with significant potential returns were driven by the chance to make societal and environmental impacts, too.<\/p>\n<p>However, sustainable outcomes were defined and prioritized very differently from one operator to the next\u2014a misalignment that threatens their upscaling. With few agreed-upon sustainability metrics, actors across the sector may struggle to develop a coherent narrative with which to engage investors, business partners, policymakers, institutions and the public. This also risks putting a \u2018green ceiling\u2019 on their environmental impacts; few saw themselves as having to make business-vs.-sustainability tradeoffs. But scale, should it come, might change that\u2014as the widespread preference for compatibility with incumbents may put pro-environmental decisions in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p>Future policy, research and institutional support should address this risk head on, ideally by spurring greater coordination among saline agriculture operators on environmental goal-setting and measurement. External stakeholders and organizations should also redouble support for advancing growth and commercialization among the actors already running salinity-focused companies. Help establishing trade groups, developing market research, exploring partnerships and fine-tuning brand strategies are just as essential for the emerging space today as further agronomic innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, if this study underscored anything, it\u2019s that saline agriculture is no longer only a series of crop, soil and water management practices for farmers to implement. It\u2019s also a business ecosystem of purpose-driven entrepreneurs whose diverse portfolio of interventions are tailored to different customers and contexts around the world. It just needs to be cultivated to grow.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Bellis completed an MSc. in environment and resource management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in June 2026, focusing on food system transformation. His 15-year business journalism experience includes staff editor roles at NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company in New York. The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7067976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[14720,15491,9174,4251,11209,761],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7067975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-agriculture","tag-article","tag-boost","tag-guest","tag-market","tag-saline"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guest article: There\u2019s a market for saline agriculture. 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