What Is the Difference Between Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade Certification?
Both share similar missions and goals but differ in focus and approach.... Continue Reading
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The Rainforest Alliance Assurance System: Supporting Due Diligence across the Supply Chain
The Rainforest Alliance employs several tools for assurance to ensure that farms and businesses that participate in our program are fulfilling the relevant criteria. Read about them in this article.... Continue Reading
Baseline Evaluation of the RA2020 Living Wage Strategy
This report, commissioned by the Rainforest Alliance (RA), offers a baseline study analyzing the dispositions of Certificate Holders and Supply Chain Actors against the living wage requirements and tools in the RA 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard. The study was commissioned to the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which worked with their local partners in Indonesia, […]
What Percentage of Certified Ingredient Does a Product with the Rainforest Alliance Seal Contain?
We introduced even stricter requirements for the use of our new seal.... Continue Reading
What is Mass Balance Sourcing?
There are multiple ways to source certified ingredients for consumer products. When companies keep the ingredients purchased from a certified farm physically separated from non-certified ingredients throughout the whole supply chain, we call it a "segregated model" of sourcing. When companies opt for "mass balance" sourcing, the certified and non-certified ingredients are mixed together somewhere in transit or production of the end product.
While both segregated and mass balance models have their...... Continue Reading