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Tuesday, March 28 • 8:00am - 9:30am
A Future Where Everyone Wins-Translating a Living Wage into Reality

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“Representing different points in the supply chain, industry experts will discuss contributing factors which suppress tea workers’ wages and  potential solutions to ensure a living wage in tea production.”
Panelists will cover:
What is a living wage
Overproduction within the global tea industry
Supply chain structure - “it’s not the middleman”
Specialty v Commodity - differences and similarities
General issues facing agriculture around the world

This will be a lively debate and well worth your time.
Speakers
avatar for Will Battle

Will Battle

Owner, Fine Tea Merchants
Fine tea & botanical import, export, and wholesale. Tea consultancy. Author of "The World Tea Encyclopaedia"​ which was awarded "Best in the World" (Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018). The second edition published Nov 2020.
avatar for Jeni Dodd

Jeni Dodd

Owner, Jeni Dodd Tea
Born and raised in America’s heartland, Jeni Dodd has journeyed far afield from the plains of Kansas to remote tea-growing regions throughout the world in search of the perfect cup of tea.  She has visited all of the major, as well as many of the up-and-coming, tea-producing countries... Read More →
avatar for Jem McDowall

Jem McDowall

Vice President, Universal Commodities (Tea) Trading, Inc.
Jem McDowall is Vice-President at Universal Commodities, New York. Jem started his career in 1984 joining Lipton in London. After six years in Sri Lanka and Malawi as a buyer-exporter, he moved to a development role for markets as diverse as Morocco and Uzbekistan, finally managing... Read More →
avatar for Henrietta Lovell

Henrietta Lovell

Owner, Rare Tea Company
Henrietta Lovell is known around the world as the Rare Tea Lady. She is the founder and master blender of the award-winning, global brand, Rare Tea Company. Since 2000 Henrietta has been traveling the world, working directly with small independent tea gardens, from the Shire Highlands... Read More →

Tuesday March 28, 2023 8:00am - 9:30am PDT
Room #S224
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