Transforming Coastal Zone for Sustainable Food and Income Security : Springer : 9783030956172 : 3030956172 : 10 Aug 2022 : Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes. Overall, about 50?70 % of the global population live within 100 km of the coastline covering only about 4 % of earth's land, thereby drawing heavily on coastal and marine habitats for food, building sites, transportation, recreational areas, and waste disposal. The people of these zones depend mainly on low productive agriculture due to several constraints such as prolonged water logging and drainage congestion in predominantly low-lying areas with heavy soils during the wet season, preponderance of saline and acid sulphate soils, scarcity of good quality irrigation water, particularly in the dry season, seawater intrusion into adjoining lands, and water pollution due to eutrophication, and others affecting the aquatic habitats, etc. Carbon se