Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers Benefit from Sustainability
A community-led Land Management Board has made sustainable, climate-smart farming the norm.... Continue Reading
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If the Earth’s ecosystems are to help maintain climate stability and to go on providing essential food, water, and habitat for plants and wildlife—along with secure and dignified livelihoods for rural people—then we must take action on an unprecedented scale. That’s why the Rainforest Alliance is driving sustainability transformation beyond individual farms or forests and across whole landscapes, spanning tens of thousands to millions of hectares.
This page features information about the Rainforest Alliance's work in tropical landscapes and links to all content and resources related to integrated landscape management.
Taking what’s known as an “Integrated Landscape Management” approach, we build dynamic landscape partnerships that enable all land users: farmers, forest enterprises, rural communities, local leaders, companies, and governments to tackle together complex and often interconnected challenges that are too big to be taken on alone—from climate change and deforestation to human rights and rural poverty.
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Where We Work
Explore our interactive map to find our landscape and community projects around the world.
Integrated Landscape Management Program
Download this brochure to learn how we help companies to address risks and challenges in the key sourcing landscapes beyond the farm and forest.
How Landscale Can Support Your Company’s Commitments
Learn about LandScale—our all-in-one assessment tool to generate landscape-level insights about sustainability.
1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People
Co-led by the Rainforest Alliance, 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People is an ambitious global coalition to promote thriving landscapes and rural communities.
Our Work
Project Profile: Stopping Deforestation and Advancing Sustainability in West Kalimantan
Since 2018, the Rainforest Alliance has been working in the Sintang District of West Kalimantan to promote an Integrated Landscape Management approach around oil palm and natural rubber production.... Continue Reading
Project Profile: The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action
Through this initiative, the Rainforest Alliance will work with several organizations to address global environmental challenges associated with commodity-driven deforestation in some of the world’s most important tropical ecosystems and sourcing regions.... Continue Reading
Project Profile: Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Program
According to a United Nations report, approximately 12 million people in Kenya live on degraded land and food productivity has fallen behind the rate of population growth. This has resulted in farmland extending up the mountain and encroaching into protected forests.... Continue Reading
All resources for Integrated Landscape Management
Using LandScale to Power Broadscale Sustainability in Mexico’s Key Coffee Region
Landscale is a tool to help your company assess and communicate sustainability impact at landscape scale. A pilot with Olam International and the Rainforest Alliance in Mexico shows how companies can apply and benefit from Landscale’s framework for assessment, verification, and reporting.... Continue Reading
Integrated Landscape Management Program
Companies seeking to address risks and challenges in key sourcing regions often find that the biggest obstacle is knowing where to start and what to do. The tools and skills required to identify key risks, the driving factors behind them, and solutions to address them are often beyond a company’s capacity. The Rainforest Alliance’s Integrated […]
Project Profile: Championing Community-led Landscape Management in Cameroon
Community-led landscape management is the best long-term solution to environmental and social challenges.... Continue Reading
Sustainable Landscapes Projects
The Rainforest Alliance’s sustainable landscapes program offers innovative ways for companies to meet their commitments while also having a long-lasting positive impact on farm and forest communities. ... Continue Reading
Integrated Landscape Initiatives in Practice: Assessing Experiences from 191 Landscapes in Africa and Latin America
We used a systematic survey and assessment process to characterize the context, motivations, investments, outcomes, and participants of 191 initiatives using landscape approaches in Africa and Latin America.