FAQ: 2020 Farm Requirements
A detailed FAQ about the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard Farm Requirements.
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Certification has had a huge impact in bringing sustainability to the forefront of business thinking, but it must continue to evolve to provide more value to farmers and companies and ensure that people and nature can thrive in harmony.
That's why the Rainforest Alliance launched its new Certification Program, which entered into force in July 2021. The Sustainable Agriculture Standard, along with its assurance and technology systems, are data-powered, and based on the principles of continuous improvement, risk-based assurance, contextualization, and shared responsibility. This is how we can deliver more value to the two million farmers and thousands of businesses that use Rainforest Alliance certification to drive more sustainable agricultural production and responsible supply chains.
The certification program is part of the Rainforest Alliance’s strategy to drive sustainability at scale in the sectors in which we operate through interconnected interventions supporting certification, tailored supply chain services, landscapes and communities, and advocacy.
Key priorities of our cocoa strategy are assurance, shared responsibility, supply chain transparency, and profitability and resilience.
How we have tailored the implementation and verification of standards requirements on child labor and forced labor to the risk exposure of each farm.
Our shared responsibility approach aims to distribute benefits and costs of certification more evenly between farmers and companies.
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A detailed FAQ about the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard Farm Requirements.
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SA-G-SD-44 Requirements 1.5.1, 1.6.2 and 5.1.4 of the 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard requires certificate holders todocument and remediate cases of child labor, forced labor, discrimination, workplace violence and harassment. following the Remediation Protocol (found in Annex Chapter 5: Social) . This Guidance provides additional non-binding informationt to support the implementation of the Remediation Protocol
SA-G-SD-9 This guidance provides background knowledge on Integrated Pest Management to help farmers understand and implement the requirements of the 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard for successful and sustainable farming. This version has also has a section on Integrated Weed Management.
Prior to the onsite audit, the CB shall perform a stakeholder consultation in certain high risk Farm Standard audits. This guidance further explains how to perform a Stakeholder Consultation. The rules related to the Stakeholder Consultation can be found in the Annex AR4.2 of the Certification and Auditing Rules.
DISCLAMER: please be aware that the allocation process of Certification Bodies for audits is suspended in Côte d’Ivoire. Therefore, any reference to this allocation in Côte d’Ivoire in any documents is to be disregarded. The Adjusted Timelines for the Transition and Full Certification Cycles of the 2020 Rainforest Alliance Certification Program have been introduced to […]
This policy is intended to facilitate the availability of RA certified volumes and reassure buyers that Brazil’s certified producers are successfully transitioning to the 2020 certification program. As producers complete their certification process buyers can have confidence to continue sourcing RA certified volumes as they have done in the past.
The Rainforest Alliance is suspending all new business activities in the Russian market until further notice. ... Continue Reading