Tag: pickers
Poverty in South Africa: The hard life of the waste pickers
As of: December 19, 2023 11:56 a.m In South Africa, almost 90 percent of packaging waste is recycled. This is ensured by so-called waste pickers who dig for recyclables in…
“I wait for the rain, like Brice the wave”… The blues of mushroom pickers
The knife that goes well, the book to avoid poisoning yourself, Christophe had planned everything to launch, at the age of 40, into a new bucolic activity: mushroom picking. But…
Tea: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they are starving and living in misery
Lipton reviews working conditions The price of a cup of tea: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers report precarious working conditions Tea is picked in the growing countries under sometimes precarious working…
Three “Himalayan Viagra” pickers disappeared in an avalanche
Three Nepalese villagers are missing and 12 others were injured in an avalanche in northwest Nepal where they were picking a medicinal mushroom dubbed ‘Himalayan viagra’, authorities said on Monday.…
Monkeys as coconut pickers on Ko Samui: a life in a chain and in a cycle
Using monkeys as coconut pickers is a tradition in Thailand. The clever animals are constantly chained for the task. Campaigns by animal rights activists have already had consequences in Germany.…
Video: Tea pickers feel the economic crisis
In Sri Lanka, the living situation of many tea pickers is becoming increasingly difficult. Inflation, drought and changes in the law make it almost impossible to earn enough money. In…
in Ariège, tags threaten mushroom pickers
Spread the word, hospitality sometimes stops at mushroom corners. According to The Midi Dispatchtags that could not be more explicit and hostile appeared on Sunday on the heights of the…