Changing weather patterns caused by human activity have wreaked havoc on olive growers worldwide, diminishing their output and causing olive oil prices to spike.
IN an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens, grower Konstantinos Markou pushes aside the shoots of new growth to reveal the stump of a tree – a roughly 150-year-old specimen, he said, that was among 15 cut down on his neighbour’s land by thieves eager to turn it into money.