Tagged: drought
Where a Warming Climate Is Already Cutting Tea Yields
A peer-reviewed synthesis of decades of research puts real numbers on climate change's effect on tea yield and quality, and on the growing area itself. Here is what the figures say, region by region.
Why a Drought Doesn't Always Raise the Tea Price
Two Kenyan droughts, a dry Assam monsoon, and a Sri Lankan cyclone give four real, recent tests of what a weather shock does to the tea price. The answer is not the simple shortage story it looks like from outside.
Who Bears the Cost of Tea's Climate Adaptation
Irrigation, shade trees, and drought-tolerant cultivars all carry a real bill, and it lands on different people in India, Kenya, and Sri Lanka. Here is what the adaptation money actually buys, and who is short of it.
Weather Insurance for Tea Only Arrived in 2025
India's government wrote tea into a weather-based insurance scheme for the first time in 2025. Sri Lanka's smaller pilot dates to 2012 and stayed small. Kenya, the top exporter, still has no scheme built around the crop at all.
Climate and the Tea Supply
The canonical reference on how a warming, less predictable climate reaches the tea trade. The plant's physiological limits, the two shapes exposure takes, why a weather shock does not move the price the way it looks like it should, the three adaptation levers and who pays for each, and the pest and insurance gaps still mostly unclosed.