“Climate Change Poses a Brewing Problem for Tea”, 4 Jun 2015

…[The tea] industry and the farmers that rely on it for their livelihoods could be in hot water as the climate changes. Coffee’s struggles with a changing climate are well-documented, but the impacts on tea are just coming into focus. Early research indicates that tea growing regions could decline in some parts of the world by up to 40-55 percent in the coming decades and the qualities, particularly for high end teas, could also change…Climate is changing the way people produce tea, it’s changing the quality of tea and people are noticing the change in quality….[T]ea-producing areas in some places, notably East Africa, could decline by as much as 55 percent by 2050 as precipitation and temperatures change…