As climate change threatens Kenyan tea, millions of workers seen at risk
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British charity Christian Aid warned on Monday. The report looked at how shifting temperatures and rainfall patterns in tea-growing regions in Kenya, India, […]
Tea under threat: Climate change and COVID land Nepal’s production in hot water
AADESH SUBEDI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how labour and fertiliser shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic, combined with heavy rains and diseases, have damaged tea yields and quality – and cut incomes for small-scale farmers…