FAQ: 2020 Farm Requirements
A detailed FAQ about the Rainforest Alliance 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard Farm Requirements.
FAQs
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.
At the heart of the Rainforest Alliance
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.
What We're Working On
Strengthened Cocoa Certification Program
Key priorities of our cocoa strategy are assurance, shared responsibility, supply chain transparency, and profitability and resilience.
Risk Maps for Risk Management
How we have tailored the implementation and verification of standards requirements on child labor and forced labor to the risk exposure of each farm.
Shared Responsibility
Our shared responsibility approach aims to distribute benefits and costs of certification more evenly between farmers and companies.
Ready to Get Started?
Begin your journey of certification with the Rainforest Alliance.
Additional Resources
Early Feedback on the New Certification Program: Kyagalanyi Coffee Shares Their Implementation Experience
Find out what Ugandan coffee exporter, Kyagalanyi Coffee, had to say about the new program—from the improvements to the challenges.
Learnings from the Field: Finca Esmeralda and the Future of Certified Bananas
After teaming up for an early implementation pilot of our strengthened certification program, both Finca Esmeralda and the Rainforest Alliance took away learnings that will contribute to a more sustainable banana sector.
Find An Authorized Certification Body
Rainforest Alliance certification is carried out by our authorized certification bodies. Find an authorized certification body in your county.
All resources for Certification
Tea Supply Chain Support Letter
The Tea Supply Chain Support Letter is a template that you can tailor to send to your supply chain to help engage with MultiTrace for tea traceability and properly report to you in the system.
Study Shows Australian Coffee Buying Habits Are Changing
The Rainforest Alliance has noticed that Australian consumers' purchasing behaviours and buying habits around coffee have positively changed as they continue to educate themselves on the importance of buying and sourcing coffee sustainably.
Banana Certification Data Report 2020
View this report for an in-depth look at our Rainforest Alliance banana certification statistics and analysis of how our program developed in 2020.
How the Rainforest Alliance Responded to COVID-19 in 2020
New annual report details the organization's 2020 response to the pandemic, which included grants and re-imagined trainings.
Google Earth Guidance
There are web, mobile and desktop versions of Google Earth. To create your own maps, you will need to use the desktop version, also known as “Google Earth Pro” (further referred to as GEP). GEP can be downloaded for free at: https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#download-pro.
Google My Maps Guidance
This guidance document provides a step-by-step overview on the use of Google My Maps. My Maps can run on your mobile device through the app as well as through a web-based application that runs on your desktop. When used together with a KML to excel convertor, My Maps can be used as a tool to […]