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In the 2006-2007 season, including olive oil and olives, almost 7 million quintals will be produced, a bit less than the previous year and equal to almost two thirds of the national consumption requirements. The value is that of three billion euros, with the aim of a billion in exports. This is the picture of […]

All fashionable gardens are sporting a smart new accessory – the olive tree, discovers Lila Das Gupta “Ten years ago it was hard to get hold of olive trees,” says Wayne Page, a garden designer in west London. “I would have to order them specially and have them imported. Now it’s so much easier.” Together […]

Intensive olive production is killing the wildflowers of the Med. Mary Keen reportsThe European Union is doing terrible things to wildflowers in the olive groves of Europe. One of the pleasures of springtime in Mediterranean countries used to be finding little yellow tulips and wild gladioli, or seven kinds of orchid in the stony soil […]

Par Patricia Lallo, Les bienfaits de l’huile d’olive ne sont plus à prouver. Pourtant, une nouvelle étude menée par le Conseil Supérieur de Recherches Scientifiques vient cautionner ce lieu commun, devenu théorie médicale: le régime méditerranéen diminuerait ainsi les risques cardiovasculaires… L’immanquable petite fiole sur la table, remplie du liquide doré, le “pantomaca” badigeonné de […]

Nudo is an olive grove. And part of it can be yours. Adopt one of its 881 trees for a year and you’ll receive all the produce from your tree. Imagine dunking your bread in your own oil from your own tree 1,500 miles away on a hillside in Italy. It’s delicious, it’s good for […]