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Effects of W.Asia conflict on tea; deadly impact of wage arrears; land rights protests persist; bad roads destroy jobs, health and dignity.

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.

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.

Labor on the Line challenges the simplistic notion that dismantling tea plantations would create a better world for tea plantation laborers, by advancing notions of justice in innovative ways.

This report provides powerful testimony from women farmers of the daily struggles they face due to climate change, and sets out emerging responses and recommendations for action.

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

James Montlake explores a practical attempt to address price volatility for smallholder tea farmers: small scale swaps markets

The GAIA principles are a framework to align and coordinate action to prevent and respond to GBVH in the workplace. They have been developed with a range of representatives from business and civil society (including trade unions and non-governmental organisations), government and multilateral institutions and initiatives based on their experience addressing GBVH.

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

This report provides updated estimates of family living expenses and living wage for Assam (Dibrugarh District), India. The update for 2025 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in December 2024 (Kaicker & Mamkoottam, 2024).