The Rainforest Alliance is committed to measuring and assessing our impacts on the ground, so we can continuously improve the effectiveness of our certification program and landscape management work.
This page features information about the Rainforest Alliance's monitoring and evaluation work and links to related content and resources.
Learn more about how we measure, analyze, and communicate our impacts on livelihoods, human rights, biodiversity, and climate.
Read about planned and ongoing research studies and monitoring and evaluation of our landscape projects.
This page describes our approach to research partnerships and contains a list of priority research topics for interested researchers.
Evidensia provides easy access to credible research on the sustainability impacts of supply chain initiatives and tools, including certification.
Producers’ perceptions of costs and benefits play an important role in the motivation to become and stay certified. This study of the short-term, economic costs of the investments, in light of the price premiums paid for Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee, indicates how compliance costs may be favoring or hindering growth. It reveals a complex cost-benefit […]
Covering close to 2.1 million hectares, Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) is the largest protected area in Central America and home to about 180,000 people, as well as globally important biodiversity and cultural heritage. This report by the Rainforest Alliance, Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CONAP), and the Wildlife Conservation Society analyzes deforestation trends in […]
This study provides the first evaluation of UTZ certification from the point of view of the certified farmers and other stakeholders in Brazil. The UTZ certification programme was launched in 2002 in Brazil. Over the years, the number of certified farmers has grown considerably, mainly due to the adoption of the standard by medium and […]
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.
In this paper, the authors develop an assessment tool to evaluate climate-smart landscape needs and opportunities in six key activity domains, then apply this tool in the agricultural landscape around Kericho, Kenya, an important tea-growing region where agriculture and ecosystem services are expected to be strongly affected by climate change.
The main aim of this study is to understand the outcomes of UTZ certification in Colombia in relation to the objectives of the program as described in the UTZ Evaluation framework, the Theory of Change and the key UTZ program indicators. It focuses on the performance of UTZ Certified coffee farmers during the harvest seasons […]