Tea’s Future Depends on Its Farmers By Boubaker Ben Belhassen Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/05/teas-future-depends-on-its-farmers/ ROME, May 20 2026 (IPS) - The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking leaves by hand beneath long mornings of mist and rain. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.