Imagine… a tea industry that puts people first
Simplifying supply chains? Not so simple. Starting out as a discussion on simplifying supply chains and sharing value more equally,…
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Imagine… a tea industry that puts people first
Thinking Allowed: TEA – A Dark History
BBC Radio 4's Laurie Taylor talks to the historian, Seren Charrington-Hollins, about the exploitation, wars & intrigue at the heart…
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Thinking Allowed: TEA – A Dark History
Want to hear some good news about women workers?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear some good news about women workers for a change? News like collective bargaining clauses…
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Want to hear some good news about women workers?
Join the call for tea buyers to support Assam wage increase
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are clear that businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights…
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Join the call for tea buyers to support Assam wage increase
Five years on from the women’s unity uprising, is anyone listening?
Five years ago today I stood outside my Dad’s old office – the Headquarters Office of the Kanan Devan Hill…
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Five years on from the women’s unity uprising, is anyone listening?
Building Tea Back Better through Sustainable Business Models
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create…
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Building Tea Back Better through Sustainable Business Models
How can Social Dialogue work better for women tea workers?
Social dialogue is defined as including “all types of negotiation, consultation...between, or among, representatives of governments, employers and workers, on…
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How can Social Dialogue work better for women tea workers?
Building Tea Back Better
The United Nations is calling on the global community to behave – well, like a community. In its paper ‘Shared…
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Building Tea Back Better
How is coronavirus affecting your precious cuppa?
The minute there was a whiff of shortage in the air – when the then still unfamiliar word “lockdown” was…
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How is coronavirus affecting your precious cuppa?
A Happy New Decade for tea workers?
Exactly half way through this last decade, the women tea workers of Munnar in South India rose up and said…
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A Happy New Decade for tea workers?