Tea Pickers in South India.  (Photo: S.J. Hirom) Tea pickers from South India. The pickers here are working on the Bandhumai Small Tea Growers Project, part of CISTA, (Confederation of Indian Small Tea growers Association) in Bandhumai Village, Yedapalli, Coonoor,...

The theme for this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is Tea: “Brew it Fair”.   It aims to contrast the low wages, poverty, gender discrimination, unsafe working conditions, and environmental damage in much of the tea supply chain, with the life enhancing situation on...