What's New in Version 1.1 of the Standard?
The Rainforest Alliance just published version 1.1 of the certification program.
The Rainforest Alliance 2020 Certification Program defines our long-term vision for the future, and the path required to get us there. The Sustainable Agriculture Standard, along with its assurance and technology systems, are designed to 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.
If you have any questions, please contact us at customersuccess@ra.org. Certification Bodies can contact us at CBcert@ra.org.
The Farm Requirements of our new Sustainable Agriculture Standard are designed to help farmers protect the landscapes where they live and work, while offering an enhanced framework to improve their livelihoods and advance the human rights of rural people.
The Sustainable Agriculture Standard’s Supply Chain Requirements aim to foster transparency and responsible business practices among companies from farm to shelf.
An important aspect of the program is the collection and verification of credible, useful data and compliance evidence. These documents provides the rules and guidelines for assurance:
Documents and tools to help understand and implement the program.
The Rainforest Alliance just published version 1.1 of the certification program.
The program’s publication is followed by a carefully planned roll-out phase to help all stakeholders learn about the new standard and systems.
This Transition Tool provides the processes for certificate holders of the 2015 UTZ Certification Program and/or 2017 Rainforest Alliance Certification Program wishing to be certified under the our new 2020 Certification Program.
This policy is to provide interpretation of the requirements in the context of Costa Rica law and regulatory processes on the respective requirements for water extractions until the conditions are favorable to obtain the necessary documentation required for water extraction and use.
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.
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.
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 […]
A GeoPDF is a special PDF format which is able to display semi-interactive maps. These maps include geospatial information about the data points of the layers shown on the map. The PDF maps are semi-interactive because it allows users to: Identify the farm information through the attribute table Extract the X and Y coordinate information […]
The 2020 Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard will become binding on July 1, 2021 for all crops. Certificate holders will have until June 30, 2022 to undertake their first audit to this standard. During this transition period Farm level Certificate Holders will be required to comply only with the Core Requirements of the standard. After […]