The first year of the tea sector HRIA saw the publication of a Literature Review which described the global tea industry and the way that it works, outlined the human rights standards, principles, conventions, laws and policies designed to protect tea workers’ and farmers’ livelihoods and wellbeing, and reviewed a wide range of reports on their actual experiences by trade unions, NGOs, academics, governments and the media. The report identified a significant gap between the human rights of tea farmers and workers in principle and in practice. This report attempts to analyse some of the key root causes of that gap through listening to the perspectives of multiple players at every level of the global tea value chain and of commentators and experts on the wider context within which the industry operates.