Tagged with "Tea"

Gender Empowerment Platform – Achievements and Reflections

IDH work with the Gender Empowerment Platform has made strong progress on tea plantations in Kenya. Download this report for the Platform’s achievements and reflections.

Empowering workplaces for women workers

Earlier this month, we launched the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) at the Generation Equality Forum. With this Fund we aim to create a safe and empowering workplace for women…

IDH 2020 Annual Report: Sustainable Business Models Delivering Impact

In 2020 the pandemic hit the world hard. Especially the most vulnerable groups, and showed us how important it is to shift the economy to benefit producers, workers…

Can land tenure security be the path to sustainable global commodity supply chains?

Digital innovation and technologies, such as blockchain, can improve the sustainability of global supply chains. To successfully include smallholders in this, one of the key actions is to…

IDH Joins Agri-Entrepreneur Growth Foundation as Core Partner

IDH has joined Agri-Entrepreneur Growth Foundation (AEGF) as a core partner, along with Tata Trusts and Syngenta Foundation India, to support farmer livelihood through improved access to inputs and services.

Addressing gender-based violence in tea gardens in Assam, India

Around one million women work in the tea gardens of Assam, producing more than 50% of tea in India, which is the second-largest tea producer in the world. Despite their…

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in tea gardens in Assam, India

IDH UK endorses industry deforestation due diligence response

IDH UK has supported 22 major companies including Unilever and Nestlé with a response on proposed UK legislation for due diligence requirements for forest risk commodities. The main conclusion is…

Working towards better nutrition in the tea gardens

Tea workers, smallholder farmers and their families often consume diets which lack diversity, leaving them nutritionally vulnerable. We worked with Unilever and…

trustea Yearbook 2019

As one of the largest producers and consumers of tea, India is at the centre of the global tea industry. Over years, the tea sector in the country…