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  • Hand blending tea at Kazi Yetu factory and offices, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Kazi Yetu: Crafting Opportunity at Origin

    In Tanzania, Kazi Yetu packages and distributes organic-certified specialty tea from high-potential cooperatives, redistributing economic gain to the farm level that empowers entrepreneurial smallholders eager to improve their livelihood.

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  • Darl Tea Redices Risk of Diabetes

    Dark Tea Reduces Risk of Diabetes | Kagoshima Exports | Consumers Feel Culpable for Climate Change

    Episode 137 | A Daily Cup of Dark Tea Reduces the Risk of Diabetes: Researchers demonstrate tea helps control blood sugar levels | Mintel Consulting: Consumers Feel Culpable for Climate Change | Kagoshima Benefits from Diverse Tea Exports | PLUS UC Davis Global Tea Institute Begins Training Tea Professionals. Enroll by Oct. 10

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  • Global Tea Institute: Professional Tea Program

    “We started the UC Davis Global Tea Institute Professional Tea Program at the request of the tea industry,” says Founder and Director Prof. Katharine Burnett. Leaders in their fields from Finlay, Starbucks, Peet’s, ITI, Empire Tea, Mother Parkers, Ito En, and Hamburg Teehandel present the 15 two-hour weekly sessions on topics across a wide spectrum…

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  • Ho-hum holiday sales projected

    India Abandons Bharat Tea Auction Experiment and Returns to English Auction Rules

    Episode 136 | Retail Sales Projections are Ho-Hum for the Holidays: Sales growth adjusted for inflation will be in the single digits, the lowest growth rate since 2018 | India Abandons Bharat Tea Auction Experiment and Returns to English Auction Rules | UC Davis Tea Institute Launches a Training Program for Tea Professionals | PLUS…

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  • New Report Examines the Causes of Gender-based Abuse in Tea

    Episode 135 | A 70-page case study explains the lapses at James Finlay Kenya that led to the BBC exposé Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea | Tea Price Protests in South India Continue for the Third Week | High Temps Lower Yields of  Türkiye’s Black Sea Tea | PLUS Old Tea…

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  • Kazi Yetu blending and packaging workers

    THIRST Examines Three Aggregated Tea Production Models that Benefit Smallholders

    THIRST Founder/CEO Sabita Banerji says, “An alternative model of smallholder farmers aggregating is starting to emerge in Tanzania and Kenya. Control distributed amongst its elements makes for a much more powerful, stronger, sustainable, and more efficient entity. I think this model will gradually replace plantations in the long run.”

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  • Kazi Yetu blending and packaging workers

    Q&A: Yangdup Lama, India’s Top Bartender

    Darjeeling native Yangdup Lama is India’s most famous bartender known for his tea cocktails. Aravinda Anantharaman chats with him about his upbringing, bartending and what a cocktail named Darjeeling would be like.

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  • India's oldest captive elephant passes at 89

    India Tea Board Weighs Auditor Concerns | Overindulgence and High ABV Tea | Tea Stalwart: India’s Oldest Captive Elephant Dies

    India Tea Board Carefully Weighs Auditor Concerns: Additional Resources Needed to Market Tea | Overindulgence and High ABV Tea | India’s Oldest Captive Elephant Dies | PLUS Tea is intricately woven into India’s cultural tapestry. In its latest marketing campaign, Tata Tea Premium acknowledges and elevates several of the Indian state’s distinctive patterns in fabric…

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  • AVPA Judges

    AVPA Competition Enhances Understanding of Consumer Preferences in Tea

    During the past six years, the Teas of the World Contest has elevated the status of tea and herbal producers, large and small, not only on the global stage but in their local markets. Teas must be traceable from origin and cannot be chemically flavored. A technical jury of professionals evaluates the teas, followed by…

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  • Tea smallholders in Kokrajhar, District, Assam

    India Audit Cites Tea Board’s Regulatory Shortfalls | China Tea Exports Decline

    India Government Audit Cites Regulatory Shortfalls of Tea Board: More than a third of tea smallholders were not registered by March 2021 | China Tea Exports Decline | China Travel Restrictions Ease | Kenya Tea Production is Up, Exports are Down | PLUS Entry is now open for the Leafies International Tea Awards, organized by…

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  • Kericho Tea Garden

    CVC May Sell Kericho Tea Estates | Dunkin’ Launches Hard Iced Tea and Coffee

    CVC Capital Partners Exploring Sale of Kericho Tea Gardens: Unilever Brands Not for Sale | Dunkin’ Will Soon Begin Selling Hard Tea at Select US Locations in 12 States | A Study Using UK Biobank Data Shows Tea Flavonoids May Lower the Risk of Gout | PLUS Phil Rushworth loves adventure camping, canoeing, climbing, and…

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  • JDE Peet’s Will Withdraw Global Tea and Coffee Brands from Russian Market

    Sustainable Practices are Correlated to Brand Loyalty: Age and income influence consumer loyalty, healthy brand attributes help | JDE Peet’s Will Halt Sales of its Best-Known Tea and Coffee Brands in Russia | The UN Global Peace Council Honors WomenServe Founder Nioma Narissa Sadler | PLUS | The recently concluded International Plantations Sustainability Summit hosted…

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