Agriculture, Food and Beverage

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

A view of oranges and lemons is seen during the 74th Lemon Festival in Menton, southeastern France, February 17,2007. Some 140 metric tonnes of lemons and oranges are used in the festival, held together with 500,000 elastic bands. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)

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.
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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.
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