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.
-- Simon Langat,
smallholder tea farmer in Kenya
Not exact matches
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.
teapigs are members of The Ethical
Tea Partnership (ETP); a not for profit organisation working to improve tea sustainability, the lives and livelihoods of tea workers and smallholder farmers, and the environment in which tea is produc
Tea Partnership (ETP); a not for profit organisation working to improve
tea sustainability, the lives and livelihoods of tea workers and smallholder farmers, and the environment in which tea is produc
tea sustainability, the lives and livelihoods of
tea workers and smallholder farmers, and the environment in which tea is produc
tea workers and
smallholder farmers, and the environment in which
tea is produc
tea is produced.
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.