Assessing the carbon footprint of tea production: case studies and challenges

Year of publication2024

AuthorFAO

PublisherFAO

AbstractUnderstanding the environmental impact of the entire tea value chain can help identify hotspots for improving and designing sustainable solutions to enable the sector to play its part in the transformative process needed to transit into greener agrifood systems. The objective of this document is to propose a methodology to measure the carbon footprint of the tea sector, and examine the data requirements and some other critical aspects in relation to the implementation of the proposed method.

 

Product typeBrochure (factsheet; flyer/leaflet; Poster; banner)

Areas of workGlobal Commodity Markets

CommodityTea

Keywordsagricultural transformation, agrifood systems, assessment, carbon footprint, case studies, sustainability, tea industry, value chains