Contribution of Tea Production and Exports to Food Security, RuralDevelopment and Smallholder Welfare in Selected Producing Countries(Discussion Paper — 21 st Session of Intergovernmental Group on Tea - Committee on Commodity Problems)

摘要

At its last session in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2012, the Group requested that the Secretariat update the tea smallholder study which it carried out in 1997. The study (CCP: TE 97/4) discussed the role of tea export earnings in food security.2. For the current study, an attempt was made to examine the contribution of tea production and exports to smallholder welfare in several major producing countries, using the household survey methodology developed and accepted by the Working Group on Smallholders at the inter-sessional meeting that was held at FAO headquarters from 5-6 May 2014.