• Spatial predictability of salinity hazard with machine learning algorithms and digital data in the Irrigation Plain - Mr Fuat Kaya, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Turkey
• Prediction of soil salinity using a random forest based model between 2000 and 2016: A case study in the Great Hungarian Plain - Ms Ghada Sahbeni, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Mapping salt-affected soils of the United States of America - Mr Stephen Roecker, USDA-NRCS, USA
• Status of salt-affected soils in Cameroon - Mr Georges K. Kome, Department of Soil Science, University of Dschang, Cameroon
• Use of aboveground electromagnetic induction meter for detecting salinity gradients and indurated soil layers in a volcanic landscape - Ms Janette Arriola-Morales, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico

Moderator: Mr Jorge Batlle-Sales, Chair of INSAS 

• Mapping root-zone agricultural soil salinity across scales in California, USA - Mr Elia Scudiero, University of California, Riverside & USDA-ARS U.S. Salinity Laboratory, United States of America
• Soil salinity mapping and biosaline agriculture in Kazakhstan - Ms Zhanyl Bozayeva, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Kazakhstan
• Current challenges in application of Electromagnetic Induction method in monitoring soil salinity and sodicity in irrigated agricultural lands: Case studies from Portugal - Mr Mohammad Farzamian, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
• Assessment of the state of soil salinity for analysis of geochemical stability of landscapes in dry areas - Mr German Kust, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation 

Theme 2 - Integrated soil – water – crop solutions in rehabilitation and management of salt-affected areas 

Moderator: Mr Ashok Patra, ITPS 

• An integrated approach for the rehabilitation and management of salt-affected areas - Mr Asad Sarwar Qureshi, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
• Effectiveness of indigenous soil amendments on soil salinity amelioration and performance of rice in Vertisols - Mr Sharhabil Musa Yahaya, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
• Measures of salt-affected soils rehabilitation and sustainable management of their fertility in Ukraine - Ms Ludmila Vorotyntseva, Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research, Ukraine
• Different furrow irrigation modes help soil salinity management in permanent raised beds in salt-affected irrigated drylands - Ms Mina Devkota, International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Morocco
• Agronomic management for rice cultivation in inland saline soil of Northeast Thailand - Mr Pirach Pongwichian, Land Development Department, Thailand

Moderator: Mr Meisam Rezaei, Vice-chair of INSAS 

• eHALOPH and the evolution of salt tolerance in plants - Mr Tim Flowers, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
• Reclaiming coastal saline soils by freezing saline water irrigation: mechanisms and application - Mr Xiaojing Liu, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, China
• Introducing salt tolerant okra as a summer crop to coastal Lebanese area - Mr Talal Darwish, National Council for Scientific Research, Lebanon
• Physiological and molecular adaptations of halophytic grasses under sodic and saline stresses - Ms Charu Lata, ICAR- IIWBR – Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, India

Theme 3 - Agenda for action to prevent and rehabilitate salt-affected soils, protect natural saline and sodic soils, and scale-up sustainable soil management practices

Moderator: Ms Lydia Chabala, ITPS 

• The emergence of a governance landscape for saline agriculture - Ms Katarzyna Negacz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Applying sustainable agricultural management practices in saline and sodic soils to increase soil organic carbon sequestration potential and mitigate climate change - Mr Dimitris Triantakonstantis, Hellenic Agricultural Organization, DIMITRA, Greece
• Salt affected soils in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh - Livelihood diversification of farmers - Mr Venkata Subbaiah. P, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, India
• Salinity management and use of state and transition models for salt-affected soils - Mr Michael J. Kucera, USDA-NRCS, United States of America 

Moderator: Mr Temurbek Reymov, Coordinator of the Interim Regional CADI Secretariat 

• Identification, mitigation and adaptation to southeastern United States soil salinization - Ms Nancy Gibson, USDA Southeast Climate Hub, United States of America
• Salt-affected soils at the farm scale: successful experiences and innovation needs - Mr Edoardo A.C. Costantini, CNR-IBE - Institute of Bioeconomy, Italy
• Soils, groundwater movements and floods in Argentina lowlands - Mr Miguel Angel Taboada, INTA CIRN Institute of Soils and CONICET, Argentina
• Mapping and monitoring saline and sodic soil reclamation in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India using geo-information tools - Mr Dharmesh Verma, RNZ International FZE, India

Testimonies from the field - Good practices to manage salt-affected soils

Moderator: Mr Sherzod Umarov, FAO

• Biological improvement of saline-alkali land by planting two cultivated species of barnyard (Echinochloa) - Mr Lin Zhu, Ningxia University, China
• The management of subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) by unconventional water in pistachio orchards in severe soil salinity and alkalinity condition - Mr Abdolhamid Sherafati, Khorasan Razavi Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO Iran
• Mix water tools for risk reductions when using non-conventional water resources - Mr Francisco Pedrero, Irrigation Department. Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, Spain
• Innovative biotechnology for sustainable management of saline soil fertility, nutrition and productivity of cotton and wheat - Ms Gulnara Ismailovna Djumaniyazova, Uzbekistan
• Saline soil reclamation though cut-soiler drainage technology: Spatio-temporal assessment - Mr Bhaskar Narjary, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India

Moderator: Mr Francisco Pedrero Salcedo, WASAG

• Haloculture for hyper-saline drain water reuse and combating dust prone regions - Mr Yousef Hasheminejhad, National Salinity Research Center, Iran
• Long-term combination of pruning residues incorporation, reduced tillage and drip irrigation to improve SOM stabilization and structure of salt-affected soils in a semi-arid Citrus tree orchard - Ms Noelia Garcia-Franco, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Halopriming; a low cost and economical shotgun solution for improving crop stand and productivity under salt affected condition - Mr Hafeez ur Rehman, University of Agriculture - UAF, Pakistan
• An economic analysis of the yield of eight varieties of potato grown under saline conditions - Mr Bas Bruning, The Salt Doctors
• The application of the effective actions for improvement the chemical and physical properties of saline-alkaline soils - Mr Samvel Sahakyan, Scientific Center of ''Soils Science, Agrochemistry and Melioration after HrantPetrossyan'', Armenian National Agrarian University, Armenia
• Gravel mulches as an effective tool for salinity management in orchards of salt-affected arid regions - Mr Farhad Khorsandi, Islamic Azad University, Iran 

Theme 1 - Assessment, mapping, and monitoring of salt-affected soils

Moderator: Ms Megan Balks, ITPS 

• Minimizing the effect of soil salinity on prediction accuracy of soil organic carbon - Mr Saham Mirzaei, University of Tehran, Iran
• Monitoring tridimensional soil salinity patterns at the field scale using electromagnetic induction sensing and inversion - Mr Karl Vanderlinden, IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Spain
• Numerical phytoindication of soil salinity: the case study in the dry steppes of Russia - Ms Kristina Prokopyeva, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
• Natural resource management and monitoring at salt-affected inter-channel depressions of Amu Darya delta under desertification for the liquorice restoration - Mr P.R. Reymov, Karakalpak State University, Uzbekistan

Theme 2 - Integrated soil – water – crop solutions in rehabilitation and management of salt-affected areas

Moderator: Ms Fatma Rekik, ICBA

• Management of soil salinity and improvement of nutrient use efficiency of salt-affected farmland - Mr JingSong Yang, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
• Saline-sodic soils rehabilitation using a rubble barrier and organic amendments - Ms Elizabeth Chávez-García, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Soil salinity control in an era of risks and opportunities: Insights from physically-based numerical simulations of flow and transport - Mr David Russo, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, the Volcani Institute, Israel
• Subsurface irrigation of tomato with saline water using an exudation textile pipeline: an option with risks - Mr Enrique Misle, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
• Producing a tailored soil, with an underused saline Fluvisol, for the conservation of a critically endangered species - Ms Ana Cortinhas, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Theme 3 - Agenda for action to prevent and rehabilitate salt-affected soils, protect natural saline and sodic soils, and scale-up sustainable soil management practices

Moderator: Ms Lucrezia Caon, FAO

• Managing soil salinity in irrigated drylands of Aral Sea basin: An assessment through the lens of sustainability indicators - Ms Krishna Devkota, ASARI, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
• Modeling risks of salt-induced irreversible soil degradation - Mr Isaac Kramer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Salts in the terrestrial environment of Kuwait and proposed management - Ms Hana’a A Burezq, Kuwait Biochar Initiative, Kuwait
• Fresh manure as a risk of soil salinization at high rates of application - Mr Roberto Baigorri, Fertinagro Biotech, Spain
• Bangladesh coastal region: Sustainable land management (SLM) best practices - Mr Shoaib JU, Soil Resource Development Institute, Bangladesh

Testimonies from the field - Good practices to manage salt-affected soils

Moderator: Mr Yusuf Yigini, FAO 

• Effective halophilic microbes for bio-amelioration of coastal saline soils - Mr Sanjay Arora, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India
• Large-scale barren saline-alkali land amelioration with flue gas desulfurization gypsum in Northeast China - Mr Yonggan Zhao, Tsinghua University, China
• Land shaping practice for management of low-lying salt affected coastal soil - Mr D. Burman, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India
• Effects of different types of composts, phosphogypsum and mineral fertilization on the chemical and biochemical properties of an acid sulphate soil and the yield of rice in Djibélor (Lower Casamance) - Mr Abdoulaye Badiane, Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research-Djibélor Agricultural Research Center CRA DJIBELOR, Senegal
• Halophyte (Dixie Grass) Plantation for Rehabilitation Severely Saline Soil in Northeastern Region, Thailand - Ms Kamontip Sasithorn, Land Development Department

OPENING OF THE THIRD DAY OF THE SYMPOSIUM

• Introduction to the INSAS network - Mr Batlle-Sales, Chair of INSAS

MAIN SESSION OUTCOMES AND KEY FINDINGS

• Theme 1: Assessment, mapping, and monitoring of salt-affected soils - Mr Tibor Toth, International Union of Soil Sciences
• Theme 2: Integrated soil – water – crop solutions in rehabilitation and management of salt-affected areas - Ms Kristina Toderich, International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University (Japan)
• Theme 3: Agenda for action to prevent and rehabilitate salt-affected soils, protect natural saline and sodic soils, and scale-up sustainable soil management practices - Mr Mohamad Jamal Khan, Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils

CLOSURE OF THE SYMPOSIUM

• Result of the GSAS21 poster competition and announcement of the photo contest’s winners - Ms Natalia Rodriguez
• Conclusions of the Symposium and the way forward - Mr Ronald Vargas
• FAO Closing remarks Mr Lifeng Li, Director NSL, FAO