Tag Archives: trade

LYF and Ringtons Tea Partner with Tanzania Producers

In March 2014,LYF Project Manager Cristina Talens, Joseph Macharia and Ringtons’ Responsible Sourcing Manager spent a week in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, working with staff from the Wakulima Tea Company (WATCO) and the RSTGA, to set up a Smallholder Support Network radio-extension programme.

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By any stretch of the imagination – the SSN has…

Just Change India – the best tea you will ever buy!

We love our friends at Just Change, both in the…

African farmers can help to transform the continent – Guardian Newspaper

This is a great article which shows how smallholders in…

IFAD Conference in Cape Town Focus on Rural Poverty in Africa

We particularly like the quotes from two participants about empowering young people…

LYF’s Youth Enterprise Programme in the Yorkshire Evening Post

Our innovative youth enterprise programme is featured in the Yorkshire…

Gates Foundation work on Women smallholders features the LYF

The Gates Foundation has been leading best-practice research on how…

Shedding Light on the Ethiopian Coffee Industry

This article from an Ethiopian journal is not the easiest…

Our NJU Leeds group in the press

Our NJU Leeds Goup in the press

Fairtrade the Solution for Cocoa-Growing Nations?

Another thought-provoking article about fair trade; this time with cocoa…