Climate Change and the Dream of Growing Coffee in Sicily

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. For more than 30 years the Morettino family had been trying to produce their own coffee on a small piece of land in Sicily. And for 30 years they had failed. But last spring, 66 seedlings produced about 30 kilograms of coffee, in a development that could turn the Italian island into the northernmost coffee plantation in the world. Experts say the climate emergency is irremediably tropicalizing the Mediterranean agriculture of Sicily,…

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