Researchers commissioned by the Rainforest Alliance compared financial recordkeeping variables between Rainforest Alliance Certified farms and noncertified farms; they also surveyed social lenders and local, in-country financial institutions.
This research is based on conversations with leading companies, industry experts and suppliers and other stakeholders about alternative approaches to addressing social performance issues in their supply chains. The first part of the report identifies 10 leading trends and elements that form this generation of social compliance programs for supply chains. In the second part of the report, Shift highlights four company case studies, including the Rainforest Alliance’s certification of Chiquita’s passion fruit farms.
In early 2013 the Rainforest Alliance commissioned the Food Economy Group, with support from the ISEAL Alliance’s Demonstrating Improvements in Poverty Impacts project, to conduct an Individual Household Economy Approach (IHEA)1 baseline study of livelihoods in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
