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What can the tea sector learn about sustainability from cocoa?

What can the tea sector learn about sustainability from cocoa?

Webinar THIRSTAfrica, Ghana, Worldwide
The cocoa sector has played a leading role in global conversations on regulation, traceability and farmer livelihoods. Antonie Fountain, Managing Director of VOICE Network, shares what the tea sector can learn from cocoa’s experience and why collaboration has been one of its greatest strengths.
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What can tea learn about sustainability from bananas?

What can tea learn about sustainability from bananas?

Webinar THIRSTAfrica, Worldwide
Alistair Smith and Holly Woodward-Davey from the NGO Banana Link explore what we can learn from their industry about approaches to sustainability, having successfully advocated for supermarkets to commit to paying a price that enable a living wage for banana workers. They discuss the lessons that can be learned about working with trade unions to ensure transformation from within the…
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Living income and living wage estimates for Tamil Nadu, India 2025

Living income and living wage estimates for Tamil Nadu, India 2025

Report Anker Research InstituteIndia
This report describes and uses the recently developed Anker Methodology® to obtain sub-national living income and living wage estimates for the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The methodology calculates living incomes and living wages for the big metropolitan areas, the urban areas of the state, and the rural areas of the state.
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Abandoned by the state, trapped in private estates: Rights abuses against Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamil Tea Workers

Abandoned by the state, trapped in private estates: Rights abuses against Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamil Tea Workers

Amnesty International’s research into private tea estates and smallholdings in Sri Lanka’s Southern Province exposes a pattern of abuses that may amount to forced labour against Malaiyaha Tamil workers, a community already marginalised by generations of discrimination, landlessness and exclusion.
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What can tea learn about sustainability from coffee?

What can tea learn about sustainability from coffee?

Webinar THIRSTWorldwide
Ashlee Tuttleman, Global Coffee Lead at Vocal Alliance shares insights into sustainability and collaborative efforts in the coffee sector such as the Global Coffee Platform. We discuss similarities and differences with the tea sector and what we can learn from coffee’s experience.
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Study of the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund

Study of the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund

Report Council For Social DevelopmentIndia
A comprehensive study to empirically assess the economic costs of GBV and establish the return on investment (ROI) for the WSAF in the tea industry and other agricultural value chains, thereby presenting a business case for investments in GBV prevention programmes.
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Assessing the carbon footprint of tea production

Assessing the carbon footprint of tea production

Report Tools FAO IGG on TeaWorldwide
The objective of this document is to propose a methodology to measure the carbon footprint of the tea sector, and examine the data requirements and some other critical aspects in relation to the implementation of the proposed method.
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Alternative approaches: A national agency strengthens smallholders’ power

Alternative approaches: A national agency strengthens smallholders’ power

Webinar THIRSTKenya
KTDA’s national aggregation model brings thousands of smallholder tea farmers under one shared structure so they can negotiate, grow and trade from a position of strength. Sudi Matara shares insights into how the system works, its successes and challenges.
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Financial Inclusion for Workers: Including a Gender Lens

Financial Inclusion for Workers: Including a Gender Lens

Report IDHKenya
This brief seeks to provide practical advice on how to integrate a gender lens into financial inclusion programs designed for low-income workers. The study assessed the financial knowledge, capabilities, and confidence of workers in the tea and flower sectors, and the gaps in their access to financial services.
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