Article · Sustainability
The Climate Rooibos Needs Is Leaving Its Only Legal Home
European and South African law both restrict the name rooibos to a narrow, delimited stretch of the Cederberg and its neighboring valleys. A peer-reviewed bioclimatic model, and the farmers already testing its warning in the field, say that exact ground is growing less suitable for the plant, with nowhere the name can legally follow it.
Jul 16, 2026 →