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Sicily’s Silent Crisis: The Cost of Drought (World 2025, by Giovanni Cipriano) - Swiss Press Award

Yellow and dried-out pastures in Leonforte, Sicily.
Giovanni Cipriano
Yellow and dried-out pastures in Leonforte, Sicily.
Photo / World
2025

Sicily’s Silent Crisis: The Cost of Drought

Giovanni Cipriano

In Sicily, climate-induced drought devastates agriculture, leaving farmers desperate as water shortages threaten livestock and livelihoods. Meanwhile, tourism thrives, with authorities prioritizing hotels over irrigation. This stark contrast highlights the region’s struggle to balance economic survival and the growing impact of climate change on Mediterranean communities.

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Sicily’s Silent Crisis: The Cost of Drought

The New York Times

Photo / World
2025

Giovanni Cipriano

In Sicily, climate-induced drought devastates agriculture, leaving farmers desperate as water shortages threaten livestock and livelihoods. Meanwhile, tourism thrives, with authorities prioritizing hotels over irrigation. This stark contrast highlights the region’s struggle to balance economic survival and the growing impact of climate change on Mediterranean communities.

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Giovanni Cipriano / Swiss Press Award

Giovanni Cipriano

Gianni Cipriano is a Sicilian-born independent photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Napoli, Italy. His work focuses on contemporary social, political and economic issues. The oldest of two children in a family of immigrants, Gianni grew up between Brooklyn, Geneva and Palermo. He graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2008 and has since regularly worked for The New York Times. He has been documenting the ongoing upheaval in Italian politics since 2013. His editorial work has also appeared in Time, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Le Monde Magazine, Libération, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, among others.

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