Innovative Ways to Enhance Living Income for Cocoa Farmers
At the Rainforest Alliance, we believe in a shared responsibility approach that encourages companies to do their part in ensuring a living income for farmers. This is the basis of our initiatives, the Living Income Module and the Living Income Fund.
Sustainability at Scale: How LandScale Can Support Your Company’s Commitments
LandScale is an all-in-one tool that allows users to assess risk and adaptively invest in, monitor, and measure sustainability impact at the landscape level.
CSR careers finally come of age – and are breaking sector boundaries
Soft skills such as collaboration and resilience have become key in the push for changes to global systems.
World Wide Waste: Turning Used Banana Stems into Hair Extensions and Fabric
The African country of Uganda is one of the world’s largest consumers of bananas. But for every ton of the fruit, plantations leave behind two tons of refuse. TexFad transforms them into tough fiber that can be woven into rugs, place mats, and even hair extensions.
Topics: BananasInnovation
Using LandScale to Power Broadscale Sustainability in Mexico’s Key Coffee Region
Landscale is a tool to help your company assess and communicate sustainability impact at landscape scale. A pilot with Olam International and the Rainforest Alliance in Mexico shows how companies can apply and benefit from Landscale’s framework for assessment, verification, and reporting.
Crop Certification: Going green unlocks global markets for farmers
Taking a landscape approach, which seeks to balance competing land use demands in a way that is best for human wellbeing and the environment.
Topics: CocoaGhanaInnovationTea