A story in The Guardian exploring the challenges facing cocoa-growing communities in Chiapas, Mexico highlights how the Rainforest Alliance’s teams are working with local cocoa farmers to provide support in building resilience against climate change.
With support from OXO and 1% for the Planet, we are supporting local and Indigenous coffee-farming communities in Chiapas, Mexico, to adopt regenerative agriculture. ... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance’s Mexico team speaks about how smallholder avocado farmers deliver Mexico’s green gold with data, transparency and collaboration through the 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L) initiative and LandScale.
Sustainable management is a critical tool for protecting global forests and improving local livelihoods. However, in many rural communities, such as those in Calakmul, Mexico, a dearth of employment opportunities often leads youth to seek work in other areas. Such out-migration leaves rural regions without the leadership, innovation, education, and ambition of their best and […]
The Rainforest Alliance has a long history working alongside Indigenous Peoples, partnering with Indigenous organizations and communities in some of the world’s most ecologically and culturally significant landscapes, including the Amazon basin. Our teams of field professionals have built enduring relationships and co-design sustainable development programs that center Indigenous Peoples as the foremost guardians of […]