Droughts. Floods. Shorter growing seasons. Economic insecurity. For communities around the world, climate change poses daunting challenges—and disproportionately impacts poor rural communities who depend on the land to live.
The Rainforest Alliance has long worked to conserve tropical forests—a vital defense against climate change—by partnering with forest communities on improved land management practices. We also train farmers in climate-smart agriculture, helping them to adapt to current climate impacts and prepare for future challenges. Our work focuses on protecting forests and land in ways that strengthen local livelihoods.
Explore how we are working to build climate resilience and reduce emissions across farms, forests, and rural landscapes around the world.
How the Rainforest Alliance is promoting locally-led and nature-based climate action across farms, forests, rural landscapes, and supply chains.
Explore how the 2020 Certification Program is inherently oriented towards climate-smart agriculture with a focus on adaptation and resilience.
The Rainforest Alliance is working towards building climate resilience and driving climate mitigation across farms, forests, and rural landscapes, supporting companies to significantly reduce GHG emissions and build resilience of their supply chains, and advancing key policies, programs, and investments that support locally led and nature-based climate action.
The Rainforest Alliance believes that agroforestry systems provide a holistic approach, simultaneously conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods, and increasing the resilience of agriculture to climate-change impacts.
A key aspect of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is helping farmers to improve farm productivity, thus achieve higher incomes and improved standard of living. Our four main interconnected areas of work—certification, landscape management, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy—have been designed to help support this goal.
Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Find a few examples in this article.
Forest conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices increase carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions.
Dive into our 2023 Annual Report to learn about the strides we’ve made toward a regenerative future.
The Rainforest Alliance in Kenya and Clarmondial announce a collaboration to execute a catalytic pilot investment for the Biosphere Integrity Fund in the Mount Kenya landscape.
In Ghana's Sui River region, we empower local communities to combat deforestation and climate change through regenerative agriculture, forest restoration, and sustainable economic practices. ... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance and Mirova announce a strategic partnership aiming to scale up locally led and Nature-based Solutions, unlocking benefits for climate, biodiversity and local communities.
Our CEO, Santiago Gowland, and the Deputy CEO of Mirova, Anne-Laurence Roucher, sat down with Reuters for an exclusive interview about our partnership. Our collaboration aims to implement targeted impact investing initiatives to scale up Nature-based Solutions, including regenerative agriculture and agroforestry, across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
The Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asian Landscapes (SFITAL) project aims to link small-scale producers to global supply chains in an environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially responsible manner.... Continue Reading