Tagged: rainforest alliance

What a Certification Label Pays the Tea Grower

Fairtrade mandates a fixed 50 US cent per kilo premium on tea but only around 4 percent of eligible production is ever sold on those terms. Rainforest Alliance covers far more of the world's tea at a smaller, now-negotiable premium. Kenya's factories tried to opt out entirely in 2025. The figures behind all three.

Tea Certification

What a Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, organic, or trustea seal actually verifies, how the audit behind each one works, and why a certified box of tea does not always mean every leaf inside is traceable to one certified garden.

The Price of Tea

The canonical reference on what sets a tea's price. What fixes it at the point of sale, why the real-terms trend has run downhill for a century, where the money goes once the leaf clears the gate, what moves it between sales, and what a certification label actually adds.