Strengthening Worker Rights and Well-Being in Agriculture
Through certification, landscape and community programs, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy, we are helping to protect and promote the rights of farmworkers around the world.
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The Rainforest Alliance has worked for more than 30 years to make agriculture more sustainable—and for us, the well-being of those who work on farms is central to that effort. When workers and farmers can earn a decent livelihood under decent working conditions, farms are more productive and land stewardship is more sustainable. Households become less vulnerable to poverty and economic shocks and more resilient to climate change. In short: everyone benefits.
We protect and promote the human rights of hundreds of thousands of farmworkers through our certification program, and of tens of thousands more in our community-level work. Our certification program is aligned with the key UN Conventions on Human Rights and ILO Labor Conventions. It includes a farm-level due diligence system, “assess-and-address”, focused on prevention, engagement, improvement, and encouraging farmers and companies to tackle these issues rather than hiding them. We also advocate with governments on passing and enforcing legislation that requires companies to follow human rights and environmental due diligence processes.
Understand our approach to tackling child labor, forced labor, discrimination, and workplace violence and harassment in agriculture through farm-level due diligence.
We’re committed to closing the gap towards a living wage for farmworkers. Read about how we support companies to achieve living wages for workers in their businesses and supply chains.
Our grievance system is designed to ensure that allegations of human rights abuses or environmental destruction are identified and remediated.
Download this sell sheet to learn how we help companies mitigate human rights risks in their supply chains and sourcing landscapes.
Through certification, landscape and community programs, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy, we are helping to protect and promote the rights of farmworkers around the world.
Mandatory due diligence legislation can ensure that companies identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for potential risks and negative impacts that their practices may have on human rights and the environment.
Gender equality is essential for sustainability. It will take steady collective action to transform oppressive systems and advance the rights of women and girls. Here’s what we’re doing to get there.
This project will provide training and engagement to at least 37,093 workers in the avocado and berry (strawberry and raspberry) sectors in Mexico and the banana and pineapple sectors in Costa Rica.
For many companies, having the right tools and resources to effectively monitor and address human rights risks can be a challenge. Without the proper means and expertise, it can be a struggle to... View more
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We applaud Oxfam’s important efforts to further the protection of human rights in global supply chains.
Mandatory due diligence legislation can ensure that companies identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for potential risks and negative impacts that their practices may have on human rights and the environment.
Rainforest Alliance certification supports farmers in turning their farms into profitable, resilient businesses that respect workers and the land. Through training, we promote farming techniques designed to help farms adapt to climate change and protect the land for future generations—all while improving incomes for tea-farming families.
Over the years we’ve worked with most of the world’s biggest companies to improve their banana supply chains, trained farmers in more sustainable growing methods, and built partnerships with local communities, NGOs, and scientists committed to changing the industry.
Explore our achievements and discover what gave us energy and hope in 2020—a year unlike any other. View more
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