Environment
Climate change is altering Morocco’s landscape and creating serious challenges for the agricultural sector. In the Al Haouz province, resilient farmers took steps to adapt, and they have a burgeoning…
An invasive beetle responsible for wiping out huge tracts of the nation’s ash population also has a taste for olive trees, researchers at Wright State University have learned. Though the…
Western Australian olive producers are holding their breath for dry weather for the next three months, after last season’s weather resulted in one of the worst crops in about two…
A UNESCO-protected olive grove of located in Puglia, Italy is standing in the way of proposed Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project valued at over $45 million. This pipeline would transport gas…
Two major Western Australian olive farmers have been forced to cull close to 7,000 adult olive trees that have been infested by the deadly Olive Lace Bug (Froggattia Olivinia) in…
A cruel year for local crops, 2016 showed no kindness to the olive industry, with one producer having seen his harvest drop by more than four-fifths. And while last year,…
Any traveler who has driven through Andalusia and more specifically through the province of Jaén can tell you of its spectacular landscape, dotted with millions of olive trees. Their seemingly…
Perfect weather over the last few months has created conditions for a strong olive harvest in Italy, both for quantity and quality. But in recent days the climate has also…