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Extremes heat and cold affect tea workers’ health; land-rights and wage protests persist across S Asia. Major shifts in Kenyan tea policy.

This month’s update highlights deep structural challenges facing tea workers and producers across South Asia and East Africa, alongside emerging reforms, climate…

The Plantation Labour Act, 1951, the main legislation governing living conditions and welfare on tea plantations in India, has now been repealed…

Extreme weather has further exposed the fragility of tea landscapes with the brunt of the latest onslaught being borne by Sri Lanka…

THIRST Tea News Update November 2025 Surveys indicate that most of the tea garden children in Bangladesh are deprived of primary education….

The strike that shook up India’s tea industry. Ten years ago women tea pluckers in Munnar, South India, went on strike demanding…

THIRST Tea News Update October 2025 Workers carry freshly plucked tea leaves at the Chota Tingrai estate, in Tinsukia, Assam, India, July…

Announcing a new partnership with Women Working Worldwide THIRST is delighted to announce a three-year partnership with Women Working Worldwide (WWW). Together,…