The Arbequina Invasion

How a Lab-Made Olive Hybrid mixed with a hefty dose of greed, Threatens our 6,000 Years of Lebanese Olive Civilization.

A scientific, ecological, and cultural dossier on the silent erosion of Lebanon’s ancestral olive heritage and the growing infiltration of industrial and gene-edited foreign cultivars.

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