Agriculture, Food and Beverage

When life gives you lemons: Sicily's farmers go tropical as climate warms

New fruits are cropping up across Sicily. Image: REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Thin Lei Win
Food Security Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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 Mangoes growing at a farm set up by a plant pathologist with a view of Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest and most active volcano, in the east of Sicily, on Jul 20, 2018.
Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Thin Lei Win
 Letizia Marceno poses with a bunch of bananas at the family farm producing organic tropical fruits on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily, on Jul 19, 2018.
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 Andrea Passanisi, a founder of Sicilia Avocado, in his avocado farm located in the shadows of Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest and most active volcano, in Sicily, on Jul 20, 2018.
Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Thin Lei Win
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