A growing body of scientific evidence points to the human health benefits in tea. Yet tea growers who value quality suffer the consequences of discounting that drives them to compete with cheap, blends that are popular for the ability it gives brands to discount and lure consumers through price. That is harmful to an industry struggling to overcome an exploitative, colonial history and evolve into a sustainable, climate adapted, socially responsible tea industry.
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All About TeaBusinessworthyEthicsSustainabilityTeaTea IndustryThe new norm
Perspective
by Dilhanby DilhanEverything in life is about perspective. That’s to be expected, because what we believe is conditioned by what we know and that is naturally, our point of view. That makes…
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All About TeaNature and the EnvironmentSustainabilityTea IndustryThe new norm
The other side of the coin – price, value & livelihoods as building blocks for a new normal
by Dilhanby DilhanAmidst the chaos and cost of COVID are looming climate and social challenges. A focus on cheap as a means of restarting retail post COVID has the potential to create greater dislocation than COVID itself.
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DilmahTeaTea & HealthTea GardensTea GastronomyTea IndustryTea TastingUnbelievable Tea Experiences
The simple thing about tea
by Dilhanby DilhanAfter every session of the Dilmah School of Tea, we come to the realisation that it is always the simplest things that can go wrong when making tea. It is…
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TeaTea & HealthTea IndustryUnbelievable Tea Experiences
The Man with no Tea in him
by Dilhanby DilhanHearing the advice, earlier this week, of a learned marketer who proclaimed that tea – in the form that we know and love it today – will disappear in five…
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Business as a Matter of Human ServiceEthicsTeaTea Industry
The Harsher Truth behind the Harsh World
by Dilhanby DilhanThe global edition of today’s International Herald Tribune (July 22,2009) offers an image of Sri Lankan tea pickers in their scenic tea garden environment. The caption ‘Tea workers’ harsh world’…
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An advertisement in an inflight magazine on a trans Atlantic flight exclaims, ‘Experience the greatness of our new tea lattes’. Beneath, the advertiser earnestly underlines its claim, ‘ Yes, we…
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Lenin wrote that ‘a lie told often enough becomes the truth.’ Generations of politicians before and after him have relied on this wisdom. Corporations have followed suit, and even tea…
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There’s one part of life as we know it now,that seems relatively unaffected by the financial crisis – and that’s tea. The tea market has seen some volatility but tea…
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Offered a cup of tea which prominently advertised its ‘fair’ heritage and its contribution to the welfare of the workers involved in its production, I unhesitatingly accepted. That acceptance unfortunately…
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