In the News: Climate Change Is Scrambling Food Production
March 03, 2025 | Source: Conservation International | by Bruno Vander Velde
Mangos are on the move.
A recent story on the online news site Grist reported from the Italian island of Sicily, where growing conditions are becoming more favorable to tropical mangos than to the lemons and olives traditionally grown in the region.
For longtime readers of Conservation News, this may come as little surprise.
In 2020, Conservation International scientists published research predicting how the “farming frontier” would shift in our climate future — enabling humans to, pardon the expression, boldly farm where no one has farmed before.
The study’s lead authors, Lee Hannah and Patrick Roehrdanz, spoke with Conservation News last week about what it feels like when “insane” climate predictions start to come true.