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Abdul-Razak Saeed, Lead, Climate Change for Rainforest Alliance, provides suggestions on how consumers and citizens can act more sustainably by looking at different aspects of their lives and behaviors.
5THWAVE caught up with Colleen Popkin, Coffee Sector Lead, Market Transformation at Rainforest Alliance, to discuss why building climate resilience at origin is also not only great for the planet, but makes great business sense for farmers too.
For rural, isolated communities in Guatemala, natural capital is the people’s greatest wealth. Since 1997, the Rainforest Alliance has worked with community forestry concessions to strengthen their organizational and technical capacity to manage natural resources in ways that protect and restore forests while developing successful businesses which offer a diverse set of high-value products and […]
CNN’s Julia Chatterley spoke with the Rainforest Alliance’s CEO Santiago Gowland to put a spotlight on what our frog seal represents, the connection between thriving nature and livelihoods, and the importance of climate adaptation.
The Sui River landscape in the Western North region of Ghana spans 244,000 hectares—including five forest reserves—and is one of West Africa’s most important cocoa-growing areas. However, the practice of clearing local forests to make room for cropland is accelerating deforestation across the region, threatening the very ecosystems that local communities depend upon for their […]
As part of the JDE Common Grounds program, the Rainforest Alliance investigated the key risks present in the Ethiopian coffee sector. According to the 2021 Ethiopia Origin Issue Assessment (OIA) the following risks are present in country’s coffee sector: climate smart agriculture, child labor, and harvest and post-harvest practices. Climate change negatively affects coffee farmers […]