Giuseppe Barbera was a full professor of Arboreal Crops. Among his books: Ficodindia (with Paolo Inglese), L’epos 2002; Tuttifrutti, Mondadori, 2007 (Premio Giardini Hanbury, Grinzane Cavour) and Aboca, 2018; Terraced landscapes in Sicily, ARPA, 2010; Conca d’oro, Sellerio, 2012; Traditional agricultural landscapes Franco Angeli, 2014; A Brief History of Reading Trees, Henry Beyle, 2015; Pantelleria di Fiori e di Fuoco, Rizzoli, 2016; Hugging trees, Il Saggiatore, 2017, Anthropocene, Agriculture and Landscape, Aboca, 2019. The Mediterranean Garden. Stories and Landscapes from Homer to the Anthropocene, Il Saggiatore, 2021. Citrus fruits. A history of the world, Il Saggiatore, 2023. For the FAI he oversaw the recovery of the Kolymbethra and the Donnafugata Garden. Member of the Scientific Council of the National Rural Landscape Observatory and of the Board of Directors of the Pantelleria Island National Park. Member of the scientific council of APGI-Associazione Parchi e Giardini d’Italia and of the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation. AIAPP honorary member and emeritus of the National Academy of Forest Sciences. ). In 2022, as part of the Costa Smeralda literary prize, he was awarded the special Mediterranean Culture prize.