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1. Library Resource

   

   Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry

   January, 2013

   Indonesia, India, Malawi

   land tenure

   Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroeconomic trends and challenges.

   This report examines wages in the tea industry with a focus in three case study areas: Malawi, West Java (Indonesia) and Assam (India). It looks at hired labour on plantations and, in particular, tea pluckers. 

2. Library Resource

   

   Pathways to Deforestation-Free Food: Developing supply chains free of deforestation and exploitation in the food and beverage sector

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   September, 2017

   Peru, Indonesia

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   agriculture

   climate change

   deforestation

   Indigenous Peoples

   land use

   Hidden in the food we buy every day, from chocolate to ice cream, are commodities like palm oil and soy that are driving deforestation across the world. From Indonesia to the Peruvian Amazon, vast areas of carbon-rich forest are being cleared to produce these agricultural commodities, contributing to climate change and social conflict.

   
   

3. Library Resource

   

   Nothing sweet about It: how sugar fuels land grabs

   how sugar fuels land grabs

   Institutional & promotional materials

   December, 2013

   Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands

   concession (land)

   palm oil industries

   Land grabbing is a bitter secret in the sugar supply
   chains of some of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies. Poor communities across the globe are in dispute or have lost their land to