Cengkeh Afo, one of the world's oldest clove trees, in Ternate, North Maluku A worker shovels cloves into a sifting machine to remove impurities at a warehouse in Ternate, North Maluku Colonial ...

Farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change, with bad weather becoming more frequent, causing ...

Clove trees are particularly sensitive to weather ... On Haruku island, just south of Ternate, rainfall has increased by 15% in recent decades, along with more extreme weather events that harm ...

Ternate's farmers defied colonial orders to eradicate their clove production by planting out of sight of the Dutch. The island's then-favourable climate kept the crop alive. Clove trees can take ...

Ternate (Indonesia) (AFP) – Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop.

stands in front of his favorite 60-year-old clove tree, one of 150 he owns, in Ternate, North Maluku. Despite the challenges, he says there are powerful "historical and emotional reasons" to ...