Tagged: irrigation

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.

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.