Article 5QA3V Sicilian coffee dream a step closer as climate crisis upends farming

Sicilian coffee dream a step closer as climate crisis upends farming

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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
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As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world's northernmost coffee plantation

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 30kg of coffee, in a development that could turn the Italian island into the northernmost coffee plantation in the world.

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