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Home » Issues » Climate » Regenerative agriculture

Regenerative agriculture

Conventional agriculture accounts for nearly 24 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and threatens more than 80 percent of species already at risk of extinction. Sustainable farming methods seek to reduce the harm that conventional practices (like applying harsh pesticides) do to land, whereas regenerative agriculture goes beyond a harm-reduction approach to restore ecosystems and add to nature’s richness.

This page features information about the Rainforest Alliance's work on regenerative agriculture and links to all our related content and resources.

For more than 30 years, we’ve worked to make agriculture more sustainable by partnering with farms and companies all over the world. We consider sustainability to be a journey—and for us, the final destination is regeneration. Building on our many years of experience in tropical agriculture, we are now supporting farms and companies that are ready to transition to a regenerative model.

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What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

What does regenerative agriculture look like in practice? Here the Rainforest Alliance breaks down its core components.

How Your Company Can Support Regenerative Agriculture

The Rainforest Alliance offers companies the tools they need to advance to a regenerative model.

Making a Shift from Conventional to Regenerative Agriculture

Download this sell sheet on how companies can shift to regenerative agriculture within their supply chains and in the regions they source from—and how we can help.

Must Reads about Regenerative Agriculture


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Agroforestry - Resilient Land Use through More Holistic Production Systems

Meeting the demand for agricultural commodities—while conserving biodiversity, and mitigating and adapting to climate change—is a major challenge of this century. 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
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Our Integrated Pest Management & Pesticide Approach

What can be done to reduce this reliance on pesticides and the negative consequences of pesticide use? A practical and cost-effective answer is integrated pest management (IPM).... Continue Reading
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White Paper

Raising the Bar—Regenerative Agriculture for More Resilient Agro-Ecosystems Position Paper

For the Rainforest Alliance, “regenerative agriculture” comprises a broad set of principles and practices under the umbrella of climate-smart agriculture. Taking an agroecology and integrated system management approach, regenerative agriculture aims to increase biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services, and increase agroecosystem resilience thus leading to resilient livelihoods. This way of farming is based on enhancing the […]... Continue Reading
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Regenerative Coffee Scorecard

Building upon years of experience and expertise in the coffee sector, the Rainforest Alliance Regenerative Coffee Scorecard offers both certified and non-certified supply chain actors a voluntary tool to guide their transition to regenerative farming. Using Rainforest Alliance certification as a starting place, the scorecard helps users evaluate producer performance against key regenerative metrics and […]... Continue Reading
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Our Integrated Pest Management & Pesticide Approach

What can be done to reduce this reliance on pesticides and the negative consequences of pesticide use? A practical and cost-effective answer is integrated pest management (IPM).

Published on December 22, 2022

Food Navigator
Media Coverage

We must redesign farm systems to enhance diversity and store carbon in the biomass and soil

Published on September 23, 2022 | Food Navigator

Santiago Gowland, CEO at The Rainforest Alliance, explains how the principles of regenerative agriculture helps firms implement practices from soil conservation to crop diversification into their supply chains.

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What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

For farmers, sustainability is a journey. The destination? Regenerative agriculture.

Published on July 13, 2022

AgriFood Networks
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Regenerative agriculture is a win for farmers, food companies and the environment

Published on July 9, 2022 | AgriFood Networks

Juliana Jaramillo, the Rainforest Alliance’s global lead for regenerative agriculture, explains how we have the means to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss crises by changing the way we ‘do’ agriculture.

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Project Profile: Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Program

According to a United Nations report, approximately 12 million people in Kenya live on degraded land and food productivity has fallen behind the rate of population growth. This has resulted in farmland extending up the mountain and encroaching into protected forests.

Published on April 22, 2022

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Regenerative Coffee Scorecard

Building upon years of experience and expertise in the coffee sector, the Rainforest Alliance Regenerative Coffee Scorecard offers both certified and non-certified supply chain actors a voluntary tool... View more

Published on April 15, 2022
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