International Research on Social, Economic and Environmental Aspects of Tea Industry
An extensive research in the tea industry of India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Malawi, Indonesia, Vietnam and China was initiated by SOMO, a Dutch development organization in collaboration with Partners in Change and FAKT, Germany. A supervisory team including Joris Oldenziel and Sanne Van der Wal, Franziska Krisch and Shatadru Chattopadhayay from SOMO, FAKT and PiC was set up. The research will cover the following objectives:
- To identify critical issues in the tea sector in key tea producing countries from the perspective of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
- To assert social, economical and ecological conditions of global tea production and trade and the impacts of the industry on sustainable development and poverty eradication.
- To Identify and assess the different quality systems active in the global tea industry throughout the value chain and analyse the role and responsibility of global tea market players, including identification of key influence points for responsible practices
- To analyse opportunities and bottlenecks for tea exports in tea producing countries and to recommend the ways to improve conditions in the global tea supply chain.
An informal network for CSOs in major tea producing and trading countries in the world will be set up to evolve collective solutions for the short-term and long-term problems affecting them. More information is available with Shatadru Chattopadhayay at (shatadru.chatopadhayay@picindia.org) orSanneVanderWal at (svanderwal@somo.nl).