Olive oil harvest in Jordan hit hard by climate change, farmers experience drastic reductions in yields

AMMAN — A source of income for thousands of Jordanian families and a sizzling commodity present in all households across the Kingdom, olive oil has not escaped the impacts of climate change on food production in Jordan. Hasan Smadi is an olive farmer in Ajloun, a town in northern Jordan, some 76 kilometres north west of Amman. He pressed the first patch of his olive harvest

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