Across the tropics, farming communities face a daily struggle to cover life’s basic needs. Cultivating better livelihoods is key to our vision of a world where people and nature thrive in harmony. For the millions of farm workers worldwide, ensuring a sustainable livelihood starts with being paid a living wage.
This page features information about the Rainforest Alliance's work on living wage and links to all our living wage-related content and resources.
We work with farmers, companies, unions, governments, and civil society organizations to make living wages for workers a reality. Through our certification program, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy work, we promote responsible business practices to ensure that companies reward and invest in sustainability transformation from soil to shelf.
Our certification program includes innovations that allow farmers to assess the gap to a living wage and measure progress. It also promotes a shared responsibility approach that encourages companies to do their part.
Download this paper for an in-depth look at the Rainforest Alliance’s position and approach to living wage that includes several interventions from certification to advocacy.
We partnered with ILO to develop indicators and methodologies for setting adequate wages. The result: insightful reports on wages and working conditions in the banana, coffee, and tea sectors.
Co-developed by the Rainforest Alliance, ALIGN reduces complexity around the topic of living wage (and living income, too) and guides companies through the process to tackle these issues in their agricultural supply chains.
We’re committed to addressing living wage through our 2020 Certification Program, the ALIGN tool, and innovative projects like Better Pay in Practice. If your company is interested in directly contributing to achieving living wages in your supply chain, we are here to help.... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance believes that workers around the world should be paid enough money to provide a decent life for themselves and their families.... Continue Reading
To improve rural livelihoods, we foster deep collaboration between farmers, civil society organizations, companies, and governments.... Continue Reading
Rainforest Alliance certification supports farmers in turning their farms into profitable, resilient businesses that respect workers and the land. Through training, we promote farming techniques designed to help farms adapt to climate change and protect the land for future generations—all while improving incomes for tea-farming families.... Continue Reading
Explore our achievements and discover what gave us energy and hope in 2020—a year unlike any other.
We’re committed to addressing living wage through our 2020 Certification Program, the ALIGN tool, and innovative projects like Better Pay in Practice. If your company is interested in directly contributing to achieving living wages in your supply chain, we are here to help.... Continue Reading
The Rainforest Alliance envisions a world in which people and nature thrive in harmony. Critical to achieving this is ensuring that the agricultural producers, workers, and communities whose livelihoods are intricately linked to some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems are able to achieve a decent and sustainable livelihood for themselves and their families. For […]
For the millions of workers worldwide who form the backbone of agricultural production, ensuring a sustainable livelihood starts with being paid a living wage. In our 2020 Certification Program, we are going further to achieve living wages for agricultural workers through the introduction of several innovations that allow farmers to assess the gap to a […]
At the Rainforest Alliance, we recognize that sustainability is a long-term journey and to make sectors truly sustainable, all supply chain actors have a role to play. An inclusive supply chain is one where both the value and the risks are shared. This requires a shift to a system where the producers’ costs and investments […]