Health Insight: Caffeine – here’s how quitting can benefit your health
ADAM TAYLOR, director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre at Lancaster University in the UK, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the impact of caffeine on the body…
In Taiwan tea country, a scramble to adapt to extreme weather
Meishan/Taoyuan, TaiwanReuters Chien Shun-yih looks out over his withering tea fields in Taiwan’s picturesque southern Meishan township and lets out a sigh. A once-in-a-century drought last year followed by torrential rain this year have decimated his crop and left Taiwan’s tea farmers scrambling to adapt to the extreme weather changes. “Climate is the thing we […]
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, […]
Unilever reveals global tea suppliers in drive for slave-free sourcing
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Consumer goods giant Unilever released a list of its global tea suppliers on Thursday, bolstering a drive to stamp out worker exploitation and modern-day slavery on plantations. The move by the Anglo-Dutch food group – which buys 10 per cent of the world’s tea supply and owns at least a dozen major […]
India tea workers live in ‘appalling’ conditions on $2 a day, says report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women working on tea plantations in northeast India earn a “pitiful” $US2 a day and live in “appalling” conditions with almost no toilets, according to a report released on Tuesday. The investigation by the British charity Traidcraft Exchange found workers in the tea-growing state of Assam were paid 137 rupees ($US2) a […]