South Africa’s small-scale rooibos tea growers aren’t getting much from an industry deal. The 2019 access and benefit-sharing ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – For four generations, Willie Nel’s family farmed a poor man’s crop. That changed about a decade ago. Not the crop. Nel still grows rooibos, large bushy shrubs covered with ...

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown widely popular around the... High atop a remote plateau in South Africa's Cederberg ...

High atop a remote plateau in South Africa's Cederberg Mountains, half a dozen indigenous Khoisan men stride briskly along rows of thigh-high shrubs. Every few yards they pause and stoop down to ...

A ground-breaking benefit-sharing agreement was signed in 2019 between South Africa’s lucrative rooibos herbal tea industry and two organisations representing Indigenous San and Khoi people.

South Africa’s rooibos tea industry paid 12.2 million rand ($716,000) to groups representing indigenous people in the country, part of a benefit-sharing agreement to recognize the original cultivators ...

Last month, China’s General Administration of Customs released its customs data for 2023. The data showed that China’s total trade with Africa grew a modest 1.5 percent in 2023, reaching $282.1 ...

JOHANNESBURG – A trade council says an ongoing drought in South Africa will devastate the rooibos tea harvest, which may lead to a 90 percent price increase. The United States is one of the biggest ...

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