Commodity: Tea

Meet Bibek

Bibek Sen is a small-scale farmer with a 1.6 acre tea garden he inherited from his father in Maynaguri taluka…

01 May 2023

RECLAIM Sustainability! 2021 Progress Report

The RECLAIM Sustainability! programme is a partnership working to strengthen civil society and foster inclusive sustainability in global value chains.…

01 December 2022

Climate Change, Carbon Farming Dominate Discussion at Asia Tea Alliance Summit

Tea is the world’s second most popular beverage after water. Roughly 3 billion cups are consumed every day. The sector…

15 November 2022

Gender sensitization creates safer workplace for women in Malawi’s tea sector

Rural women working in the tea sector in Malawi form a large part of the labor force that enables this…

14 October 2022

‘Reaching the Unreached’: Beating The Water & Sanitation Crisis in Sri Lanka

For communities in and around the tea planation areas in Sri Lanka, water and sanitation remain significant challenges. Solidaridad stepped…

06 May 2022

The promising future for the Indian Tea sector combines tea and palm oil in one business ecosystem

Recently, the Indian Magazine ‘Industry Outlook’ published an article written by Solidaridad’s Asia director, Dr. Shatadru Chattopadhayay. Here, Nico Roozen…

16 February 2022

Celebrating ‘chai’ on International Tea Day 2021

The Indian tea industry’s persistent emphasis on sustainability across the value chain from the bush to the cup was deliberated…

01 June 2021

Reclaim Sustainability!

Launch of RECLAIM SUSTAINABILITY! programme for inclusive and sustainable value chains

Solidaridad, Fairfood, TrustAfrica and Business Watch Indonesia (BWI) are excited to launch our new joint programme, RECLAIM Sustainability! This five-year…

16 February 2021

Tea

Globally, over 13 million people rely on the tea industry for their livelihood, including nine million smallholder farmers who produce…

09 December 2020