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FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Tea farmers pluck tea leaves at Tukiamwana in Kisii County. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]
A new report from the charity Christian Aid shows that Kenya, the world’s largest exporter of black tea, is facing a host of climate-related impacts such as rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, droughts, and new insect infestations.
These are forecast to destroy 26.2 per cent of the country’s optimal tea growing areas by 2050. Areas with medium quality growing conditions are to be cut by 39 per cent in the next 30 years due to climate change.
With its crucial role in the global market, the fate of the Kenyan tea sector has a major effect on tea drinkers around the world. The biggest per-capita consumers of tea are the UK and Ireland, host of this year’s COP26 climate summit.
English breakfast tea is poured from a teapot. Photo credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire. Climate change is putting the much-loved British cuppa at risk as extreme weather and rising temperatures hit tea-growing countries, a report warns. The UK and Ireland drink more tea per person than any other countries in the world, with Kenya alone producing half the black tea drunk in the UK. But a report from Christian Aid warns that Kenya, the world’s biggest exporter of black tea, faces more erratic rainfall, making floods and droughts more common, and rising temperatures. Research suggests climate change is going to slash optimal conditions for tea production in Kenya by a quarter (26%) by 2050, and areas with only average growing conditions will see production fall by 39% by mid-century.
Climate change is bad news for tea drinkers CHRISTIAN AID
Richard Koskei, a tea farmer from Kericho, Kenya
BRITAIN’s beloved daily cup of tea is under threat as climate change intensifies, affecting the world’s prime tea-growing regions, including Kenya and India, a new report from Christian Aid suggests.
Not only will supplies of tea be reduced as a result of poor crop yields, says the report,
Reading the Tea Leaves: Climate change and the British cuppa, but the flavour and health benefits of tea will reduce, too. Increased rainfall overwhelms plantations and produces poor-quality leaves. The result is tasteless tea, which is also lower in the anti-inflammatory compounds that provide health benefits to drinkers.