The Rainforest Alliance is strengthening its pioneering cocoa certification program, which is the world’s largest scale initiative to drive more sustainable cocoa farming. Key priorities of the cocoa strategy are assurance, shared responsibility, supply chain transparency, and profitability and resilience.
With the support of the cocoa industry, the Rainforest Alliance is taking this unprecedented action to facilitate greater accountability and oversight in the cocoa sector. The organization’s goal is to improve the economic, social, and environmental conditions of the cocoa industry – beginning with the millions of smallholder farmers in the first mile of cocoa production.
Phase 3 of our Cocoa Assurance Plan invites new groups from West Africa to become certified, provides an updated policy for farm and supply chain certification, and further addresses farm encroachment in protected areas and deforestation.
This Q&A has been developed to provide guidance to certificate holders and certification bodies with regards to the Measures to Strengthen the Cocoa Sector.
This policy sets out specific implementation requirements for certificate holders at both producer and supply chain actor levels (Certification Criteria) and for reinforcing the assurance process (Assurance Process Rules).
Information about a new approach we will implement in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana beginning in June 2020 to strengthen assurance of our certification system.
We’re happy to share the annual reports on the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ coffee, cocoa, and tea certification programs. Please see our summaries below and download each sector’s full data report for our facts and figures and data visualizations.[Read more...]
View this report for an in-depth look at our Rainforest Alliance and UTZ cocoa certification statistics and analysis of how our programs developed in 2021.
View: Cocoa Certification Data Report 2021
The Rainforest Alliance, CDP, Clarmondial, Conservation International, and USAID announce a transformational public-private ‘Business Case’ partnership to reduce cocoa and other commodity-driven deforestation, and contribute to global climate and biodiversity goals.
Topics: Cocoa
This policy sets out the certification timelines and procedures for cocoa groups in Côte d’Ivoire for the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Certification Program.
View: Certification Timelines and Procedures for Cocoa Groups in Côte d’Ivoire
The Rainforest Alliance is transitioning all cocoa traceability to our new digital platform MultiTrace.[Read more...]
