Sentences with phrase «tea farmers»

Over 80 % of the employees are women and they support hundreds of small - scale herbal tea farmers in their community.

The company has also been working with the same tea farmers for over 30 years and through this partnership has been able to set sustainable harvesting and ethical trade practices.

-- Simon Langat, smallholder tea farmer in Kenya

A ten - minute exploration of the work that Betty's and Taylor's of Harrogate and the Rainforest Alliance are doing with tea farmers throughout Rwanda.

We are evolving and improving our ethical sourcing standard by working closely with local and international organizations including NGOs, government organizations and certifiers to ensure our approach is comprehensive to positively impact the natural environments of tea production and the next generation of tea farmers.

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.

Streamlining the certification process will help the 1.9 million farmers we work with — especially the 182,000 cocoa, coffee and tea farmers currently certified under both standards — and new farmers alike.

Our field trainer shows tea farmers that reducing herbicide use can protect forests, soil, and water.

Now a project lead by UK Fair Trade pioneers Cafe Direct is helping coffee and tea farmers create a more resilient future in the face of an already changing climate.

In Kenya, when lead tea farmers supplying Lipton started working with the Rainforest Alliance, these benefits of certification were so apparent to the country's 560,000 small tea producers, that about 350,000 of them became Rainforest Alliance Certified.

«We reject Sainsbury's current proposal... We believe that there is strength in unity and, as a valued and respected customer, we hope that Sainsbury's listen to us and decide to change their approach to ensure that the 200,000 Fairtrade tea farmers and workers that they currently buy from will not be punished as a result of our decision not to partner with Sainsbury's Foundation in their current model.»

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.

In response to learning about Ahmed's work with tea farmers, the Conklins shared that they were experiencing something similar with maple.

«We have been shown that if we work the land and our resources correctly then we can make money and live healthily and well,» says Charles Gachao, a smallholder tea farmer in Kenya's Aberdare Mountains, who's worked with us since 2007.

Thousands of Kenyan coffee and tea farmers have attended our financial literacy workshops to obtain tools to boost their incomes and manage their farms more efficiently.

In Kenya, tea farmers we work with now treat graywater before it gets released into streams.

Getting the nation's 450,000 smallholder tea farmers, who grow 73 percent of the nation's export crop, to adopt sustainable farming methods is a high priority for the government, conservationists, and industry groups alike.

Starting out with pilot projects in Mexico, Peru and Kenya, the initiative is looking to scale up its work — both with coffee and tea farmers in other regions — and also across the broader agricultural sector.