Rainforest Alliance to Bolster Cocoa Certification Programme after Blunders
The Rainforest Alliance is strengthening its cocoa certification programme after its Utz scheme that came under fire last year.
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The Rainforest Alliance is strengthening its cocoa certification programme after its Utz scheme that came under fire last year.

The Rainforest Alliance environmental organisation is strengthening its key Cocoa Certification Programme, delivering a major global initiative to drive more sustainable cocoa farming.
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The Rainforest Alliance has made a significant contribution to a more sustainable banana sector in the last 30 years. This paper describes the Rainforest Alliance banana program and its positive impacts. It also touches on the sustainability issues that the organization needs to continue to address and how it envisions doing this. Bananas are at […]