As demonstrated in this report, tea estate wages in Malawi are too low at present to support a decent life style.This is despite large recent increases in wages and the conservative assumptions we used to estimate our living wage. This situation needs to be viewed in context. Malawi is the 8th poorest country in the world. And, tea estate jobare relatively good jobs for rural Malawi. Not only are they among the few jobs available, they also pay more than statutory agricultural minimum wage...[T]ea is an internationally traded good bought by people in high income countries who expect minimum standards such as those in codes of practice of standard setting/certification organizations--which means that wages on tea estates need to increase.