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.
Begin your journey of certification with the Rainforest Alliance.
Find out what Ugandan coffee exporter, Kyagalanyi Coffee, had to say about the new program—from the improvements to the challenges.
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.
Rainforest Alliance certification is carried out by our authorized certification bodies. Find an authorized certification body in your county.
SA-R-GA-5 The Auditing Rules outline the requirements during the audit process and how the CBs and their auditors shall carry out the assessment of the standard. This document replaces Chapter 2 of the previous Certification and Auditing Rules.
Here you can find a list of Certificate Holders that have been audited and meet additional EUDR self-selected requirements in the Rainforest Alliance's Alignment with the EUDR Policy.... Continue Reading
This policy aims to align the requirements of the Rainforest Alliance standard applicable to intermediaries in the context of cocoa production in Latin American countries. The requirements mentioned in this policy are intended to assist cocoa producers in the implementation of the Rainforest Alliance program.
SA-P-AF-6 This policy sets out specific implementation requirements for certificate holders at both producer and supply chain actor levels (Certification requirements) and for reinforcing the assurance process (Assurance Process Rules).
Miguel Gamboa, Sector Lead for Coffee at the Rainforest Alliance, spoke with Comunicaffe to explain how our coffee certification program works at the source.
This PowerBI report provides key highlights and trends for the 2023 reporting year, and features high-level statistics at global, regional, and country levels. ... Continue Reading