Making Ethical Supply Chains the New Normal
Commodity production and trade are at the centre of Earth’s most pressing sustainability challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss, and extreme poverty.
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September 25, 2019
The Rainforest Alliance Certification Program is a sustainability assurance system that helps drive positive change in agriculture and supply chains. It aims to improve livelihoods, advance human rights, and protect biodiversity.
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The certification program is part of the Rainforest Alliance’s strategy to drive sustainability at scale in the sectors in which we operate through interconnected interventions supporting certification, tailored supply chain services, landscapes and communities, and advocacy.
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Conventional Agriculture Is Destroying Forests at the Rate of Three Football Pitches a Minute
In response to the devastating escalation of fires in the Amazon, one of the most frequently-asked questions is: “How can we feed a growing human population, while protecting precious natural habitats such as rainforests?”
How the Save the Rainforest Movement Gave Rise to Modern Environmentalism
It wasn’t all toucan t-shirts and lizard candy.
Baseline Study of Environmental and Social Conditions on Rainforest Alliance Certified Banana Plantations in Costa Rica and Belize
The Rainforest Alliance, IDH-Sustainable Trade Initiative, and private entities in the banana sector collaborated on an evaluation of the social and environmental practices on Rainforest Alliance Certified banana farms in Costa Rica and Belize. The study was carried out in 2018 and analyzed wages, benefits, and workers’ rights; occupational health; and safety on a sample of seven […]
Towards a Sustainable Banana Supply Chain in Colombia
This evaluation study, conducted by the Wageningen Economic Research and commissioned by the Rainforest Alliance, compared certified banana farms to similar non-certified farms in the region of Magdalena, one of Colombia’s main banana producing regions. The research found that wages and working conditions on certified farms are slightly better, that certified farms take more safety […]
UTZ Hazelnut Program in Turkey Evaluation
The UTZ hazelnut certification program was launched in 2014. This evaluation compares the situation of certified hazelnut producers in 2018 against a baseline taken at the start of the program in 2014. Between 2014 and 2018 the Hazelnuts certification program grew considerably. In 2018 it had over 4,300 farmers enrolled, members of 14 group-certificate holders, […]