Sicilian coffee dream a step closer as climate crisis upends farming

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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