How time flies, give or take a few weeks summer vacation and the small matter of the Olympics here in London and I will have been Chairman for just about a full year, so a good moment to reflect on …

My colleague Ranjan and I recently spent a few days on a tea estate in Assam with two of them dedicated to training 25 deputy and assistant estate managers on Occupational Health & Safety (OHS).

This trip was particularly special …

I recently returned from a successful trip to Indonesia where I’m working closely with my colleague Nelia on the ETP / IDH smallholder project. The project is helping smallholder farmers to improve the productivity of their plots with the aim …

We are only a couple of weeks into 2012 and already the ETP staff are racking up the miles.

Our two African staff, Jane and Wagurah are both in Uganda at the moment travelling with staff from ETP member companies …

I was very happy to welcome Liz Smedley, ETP’s UK based China advisor to China recently. I’ve been working as the ETP Regional Manager in China since 2007, focusing on helping tea producers to engage with the ethical requirements of …

A few weeks ago I travelled to Kenya where we are delivering a climate change adaptation project in partnership with GIZ (the German Development Agency). The goal of the project is to train approximately 10,000 vulnerable Kenyan smallholder farmers in …

ETP has agreements in place with three key certification programmes operating in the tea sector (Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Utz Certified) to reduce duplication and increase our joint impact. One of my roles is to ensure that if an ETP …

We had a very positive week in Kenya last week. Wagurah, Jane, Anu and I went through all the countries that our members buy from in Africa and made sure that we have a clear improvement plan in each case. …