Saline Agriculture to Address the Climate, Food, Water, Ecosystem and Econometrics U.N. SDG Issues

The U.N. SDG societal issues of climate, population, ecosystem, water and energy are increasingly altering agriculture in real time.These alterations are in the context of the extant, limited capacity, fresh water agriculture.However, as these societal issues become more severe, both with respect to capacity and cost, there is a major available alternative -the huge capacities and profitable opportunities provided by saline water agriculture and halophytes.This paper summarizes the major saline agriculture opportunities to profitably address land, fresh water, food, energy, climate and ecosystem issues at scale.Overall, halophytes are a critical portion of the frontiers of the responsibly imaginable for agriculture going forward.Saline agriculture can address the increasing scarcity and increased costs of fresh water/ arable land, population growth, and the adverse climate and ecosystem impacts of freshwater agriculture.Saline Agriculture could reduce costs, increase profits, increase available fresh water, provide huge increases in food and fodder production and seriously mitigate climate.