European Commission reveals widespread delays by the country’s authorities to halt spread of deadly plant disease. You have full access to this article via your institution. A vicious pathogen that is ...

Xylella has already destroyed 21 million olive trees across Puglia. This new preservation zone brings together land rented by A.M.O. Puglia and land contributed by privately owned partners, all of ...

Corrado Rodio walks outside the thick stone walls of his family’s ancient olive oil mill and farmstead, the Masseria Brancati, and strolls over to a 2,000-year-old olive tree at the farm’s entrance.

The last time I was in Puglia four years ago, it was palpable that this eastern heel of Italy bordering on both the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas, was quickly acquiring a reputation for being a region ...

(CBS NEWS)- Olive trees don’t just dot the landscape in Puglia, Italy; they define it. They are so important here, in the heel of Italy’s boot, that locals use words like “patrimony” and “cultural ...

An olive grove near San Donaci in Italy's Salento plains slowly dies, a victim of a disease believed to be caused by a plant bacterium from the Americas. The disease, known as the leprosy of olive ...

More than a third of olive oil in the U.S. comes from Italy, which has kept a longstanding reputation for quality. But the quantity of olive oil made in the south of Italy has been in sharp decline. A ...

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