Project Profile: Advancing women’s rights through community-led landscape management in Mount Bamboutos
Women are the backbone of Cameroon's natural resource-based economy.... Continue Reading
Project Profiles
September 17, 2020
What's at Stake
70 percent of the world’s cocoa comes from West and Central Africa, home to strong, rural economies set in vast forests. In Central Africa, the Congo Basin forests—a critical and a biodiversity-rich carbon sink, and the world's second largest stretch of tropical rainforest—are threatened by industrial and agricultural expansion, which has already decimated West African forests.
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Project Profile: Championing Community-led Landscape Management in Cameroon
Community-led landscape management is the best long-term solution to environmental and social challenges.... Continue Reading
How Following a Frog Can Make a Difference
In this podcast, Mariska Nell talks to Melanie Mokken who's the Market Development Manager for Rainforest Alliance for the Australian and New Zealand market.
COVID-19 Heightens the Risk of Child Labour. This Is How We Can Tackle It
Child labour demands our urgent attention. All of us need to do our part to improve the livelihoods of farmers and farming communities around the world in a way that supports children, argues the Rainforest Alliance's child labor lead Kunera Moore.
Harnessing Digital Technology for Better Farming
Our digital innovation programs use mobile technology to deliver data-driven coaching to farmers.... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance Announces Winners of the International Ag-Tech Developer Challenge
The Rainforest Alliance’s Ag-Tech Developer Challenge received entries from 50 organizations globally. CropIn, India’s leading agri-tech company, won first place, and 20tree.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in the Netherlands, earned second place. The Rainforest Alliance announced on July 2, 2019 the two winners of the first-ever international Ag-Tech Developer Challenge. 50 organizations took […]