Pick up a packet of tea from any major brand at the supermarket and you'll likely see labels promising consumers the tea inside is ethically sourced. Certification schemes like Rainforest Alliance ...

The recently opened Pekoe Trail, which runs for more than 300km through tea plantations, villages and forests, tells the story of Sri Lanka's complex and chequered tea history. The sun is bright ...

Up in the Sri Lankan highlands, a 19th-century transport network for tea is now conveying adventurers to remote communities and businesses. The 186-mile Pekoe ...

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's tea fields. But for Sagunthla, a mother of two, it's just another day. She wraps a plastic ...