Sentences with phrase «smallholder tea farmer»

-- Simon Langat, smallholder tea farmer in Kenya

The Rainforest Alliance's latest video showcases our efforts to train Sri Lankan smallholder tea farmers in innovative weed - control methods, which is an important aspect of sustainable agriculture.

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The Rainforest Alliance is working with the Ijenda and Rwegura tea factories in northwest Burundi to improve water and sanitation for its 25,000 smallholder farmers.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Those same managers now co-host Giri's trainings for the smallholder farmers who supply tea to the estates, taking special measures (serving tea with Sri Lankan sweets, for example) to convey to the farmers that they are valued partners.

Yet tea - industry veteran Giri Kadurugamuwa, who heads the Rainforest Alliance's ground operations in Sri Lanka, has already trained more than 30,000 tea farmers since 2012; he is quite unfazed by the additional 60,000 smallholder farmers slated for training in the near future.

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On behalf of the Rainforest Alliance, they are training tea estate workers and smallholder farmers to adopt simple, time - tested methods that safeguard soil health and water quality and protect workers from dangerous chemical exposure.

These land degradation impacts can also jeopardize food security, because smallholder farmers combine growing tea and subsistence crops on their plots.