FAQ: 2020 Farm Requirements
A detailed FAQ about the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard Farm Requirements.
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Assess and Address Pledge
The assess-and-address pledge can be used by the Certificate Holder to publicly inform workers/ group members of its commitment to prevent and remediate human rights violations. This is an editable version so that the text can be adjusted to fit the Certificate Holder’s needs and context best. This can then be printed and visually displayed […]
Guidance D: Geolocation Data Requirements and Risk Maps
Guidance D: Geolocation Data Requirements and Risk Maps provides guidelines to the Certificate Holders to assist in recording this information according to the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard Farm Requirements. In addition, It also provides guidelines for Certification Bodies (CBs) on how to verify this data during the audit process.
Updated Annex S7: Improving our Integrated Pest Management Approach
As part of our commitment to gradually move towards crop-specific approaches by harmonizing science-based and field-based approaches, we are presenting changes to Annex S7: Pesticides Management.... Continue Reading
Fee Catalogue for Certification Bodies
The Rainforest Fee Catalogue describes the fees applicable to Certification Bodies according to Section 1.6, Assurances Costs of the Rules for Certification Bodies.
Guidance and Methods for Child Labor and Forced Labor Sectoral Risk Maps
This document explains the method used to create the Rainforest Alliance’s risk maps on child labor and forced labor and provides an overview of how the indices per country and sector were calculated.
Sustainability Differential and Sustainability Investments: Hazelnut Sector Guidance
This guidance explains how the Sustainability Differential and Sustainability Investment requirements are implemented in Hazelnut sector