Climate change is impacting the growing season of tea plants — here’s how farmers are adapting to save your favorite cuppa 🍵
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In partnership with Eat Forum, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and the IKEA Foundation.

Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, right after water. But the tasty drink is under threat by our changing climate. Changes in temperature and rainfall patterns not only affect the growing season of tea plants, but also the flavor and health benefits of tea. Climate change is pushing rainfall in certain tea growth regions to the extremes, leading to an overall decrease in precipitation but with more instances of drought and heavy rain. But drought and floods aren’t the only issue, pests are too. Higher temperatures allow insects that attack tea plants to survive winter, giving them more time to reproduce. Climate change has pushed tea farmers to start to adapt agroforestry techniques and grow tea plants using different methods so they can be more resilient to climate shocks like droughts and floods.

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