Above the green hills of the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy, an agile farmer leaps across terraced lemon groves overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
, but surveys show that these lemon grove areas have been in decline for the past 60 years.
It's used in pasta dishes, sauces for salads and grilled fish, desserts -- not to mention Italy's famous Limoncello liqueur. And because of its properties -- it is rich in vitamins C, B, E, potassium and magnesium -- the inhabitants of the coast have found myriad uses, from cleaning clothes to natural medicine.
Sculpting the wild cliffs overlooking the sea, the orderly architecture of the lemon groves curb some of the area's worst problems, including landslides caused by rain and wildfires. Low profitability and high costs of the traditional agriculture system have pushed more and more Amalfitans off the land, causing walls to crumble. Tourism, increasing to problematic levels in parts of Amalfi, has given them another, perhaps easier, source of income.
"Most tourists who come to Amalfi are unaware of this system just across the main road," explains De Pasquale, leaving farmers cut off from the tourism dollars pouring into the region., an agricultural tourism venture to increase awareness of the Sfusato and revitalize the traditions used to cultivate it.
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