Fairtrade was founded to alleviate poverty and economic injustice through a market-based
form of solidarity exchange. Yet with the increasing participation of transnational food …

Increasing numbers of consumers see themselves as 'partners' in poverty reduction,
purchasing Fairtrade products to offset inequalities in the global economy and to ensure that …

A study to determine the impacts of farmers field schools (FFS) on smallholders' adoption of
good agricultural practices in tea and to assess sustainability of smallholder tea production …

Purpose–This paper seeks to bring together ethical governance theory and empirical
findings to examine the shifting nature of governance in global value chains, and the …

Credit cooperatives make a significant economic and social contribution to development in
Kenya. They are unique financial institutions that are jointly owned and democratically …

The smallholder tea sub-sector which is part of the larger Kenyan tea industry has enjoyed
considerable success since its inception in the early 1960s. The planted area under the …

Tea sub-sector is Kenya's second largest foreign exchange earner after horticulture. The
small holder farmers own about 80% of the land under tea but produce about 60% of made …

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SUSTAINABILITEA: SHAPING SUSTAINABILITY IN TANZANIAN TEA PRODUCTION By …

Kenya is a leading country in the production and trade of black CTC tea in the world. Every
year the country produces in excess of 300 million kilograms of made tea with KTDA …

We present the results of a literature review of the impact of voluntary standards on
smallholders' ability to participate in markets, conducted by FAO in 2012. The study found …