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• • THIRST is recruiting a new Chair of Trustees Lead the world’s only NGO focused exclusively on tea workers’ and tea…

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.

Tea farmers hit by Nepal’s tea crisis, Kenya’s export levy. Landrights and wage struggles intensify.

Upcoming event Image VOICE Network Event description The cocoa sector has faced many of the same challenges as tea. It has also played a leading role in global conversations on regulation, traceability and farmer livelihoods. What can the tea sector learn from that experience? The cocoa sector has for many years been under constant pressure…

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 industry, and organising an effective global forum.

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.

Amnesty reports human rights abuses; child dies due to lack of ambulance; pushback on Kenya’s tea levy; origins of International Tea Day;…

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.

THIRST has invited experts from a range of other sectors that have made progress on human rights issues to share their sustainability…

Indian tea State election results. Gov’t efforts address industry challenges across Africa & Asia. Innovations tackle child labour & climate impacts in…