Climate change reduces national harvests and jeopardizes the staple foods of the Mediterranean diet, with reductions ranging from 12% for wine to 30% for peaches and nectarines, but also with regards to the national extra virgin olive oil production, which is estimated at around 290 thousand tons, well below the past four-year average. This is what Coldiretti's analysis reveals. As of the commencement of record-keeping in 1800, the temperature in 2023 is 1.05 degrees higher than the historical mean, which places it on the list of the second warmest years in Italy since that time.
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