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Across the tropics, farming communities face a daily struggle to cover life’s basic needs. Cultivating better livelihoods is key to our vision of a world where people and nature thrive in harmony. For the millions of farm workers worldwide, ensuring a sustainable livelihood starts with being paid a living wage.
This page features information about the Rainforest Alliance's work on living wage and links to all our living wage-related content and resources.

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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, […]
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The Rainforest Alliance’s vision is a world in which people and nature thrive in harmony. Critical to achieving this is ensuring that agricultural farmers, workers, and communities are able to achieve a decent and sustainable livelihood for themselves and their families.

The study looks at impacts of transition to mechanized harvesting; employment terms and conditions; gender discrimination; wages; occupational health and safety; housing and living conditions; and operational grievance and remedy mechanisms. ... Continue Reading