Droughts. Floods. Shorter growing seasons. Economic insecurity. For communities around the world, climate change poses daunting challenges—and disproportionately impacts poor rural communities who depend on the land to live.
The Rainforest Alliance has long worked to conserve tropical forests—a vital defense against climate change—by partnering with forest communities on improved land management practices. We also train farmers in climate-smart agriculture, helping them to adapt to current climate impacts and prepare for future challenges. Our work focuses on protecting forests and land in ways that strengthen local livelihoods.
Explore how we are working to build climate resilience and reduce emissions across farms, forests, and rural landscapes around the world.
How the Rainforest Alliance is promoting locally-led and nature-based climate action across farms, forests, rural landscapes, and supply chains.
Explore how the 2020 Certification Program is inherently oriented towards climate-smart agriculture with a focus on adaptation and resilience.
The Rainforest Alliance is working towards building climate resilience and driving climate mitigation across farms, forests, and rural landscapes, supporting companies to significantly reduce GHG emissions and build resilience of their supply chains, and advancing key policies, programs, and investments that support locally led and nature-based climate action.
The Rainforest Alliance believes that agroforestry systems provide a holistic approach, simultaneously conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods, and increasing the resilience of agriculture to climate-change impacts.... Continue Reading
A key aspect of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is helping farmers to improve farm productivity, thus achieve higher incomes and improved standard of living. Our four main interconnected areas of work—certification, landscape management, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy—have been designed to help support this goal.... Continue Reading
Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Find a few examples in this article.... Continue Reading
Forest conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices increase carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions.... Continue Reading
Which foods will climate change wipe out first? Your favorites.... Continue Reading
The Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asian Landscapes (SFITAL) project aims to link small-scale producers to global supply chains in an environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially responsible manner.... Continue Reading
Definitions differ, but at its heart, sustainable agriculture is about meeting the needs of the present, without sacrificing those of tomorrow—it’s farming that is environmentally sound, socially responsible, and profitable for farmers.... Continue Reading
Ahead of the World Cocoa Foundation meeting in Brazil, our CEO Santiago Gowland gives an exclusive interview with CocoaRadar on deforestation, the business case for regenerative agriculture, and Rainforest Alliance's work across critical agricultural landscapes.
In partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Rainforest Alliance is implementing the first phase of IDB’s Amazon Bioeconomy Marketplace (ABM) initiative to improve socioeconomic conditions, fight climate change, and help restore ecosystems in the Amazon by supporting the identification and growth of export-oriented sustainable bio-businesses. Through training and technical assistance activities on sustainability […]
The Rainforest Alliance's updated Exceptional Use Policy aims to support farmers to phase out Highly Hazardous Pesticides. Here are our insights on the state of pest and disease control in the fruits sector and how our pesticide policy fits into our vision of a regenerative future. ... Continue Reading