The Rainforest Alliance has created a new Regenerative Agriculture Standard for coffee — a certification program to promote sustainable livelihoods for farmers and companies and to restore tropical ...

Restoring soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem function is an urgent priority for farmers, businesses, and global economies. The new Rainforest Alliance standard aims to accelerate these efforts.

An open letter to the newly merged ethical certification standards, UTZ and Rainforest Alliance, urging them to maintain and improve on their certification criteria as they develop their new standard, ...

Two of the world’s leaders in sustainable agriculture and certification, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have announced plans to merge later this year in an effort to simplify the certification process ...

The Rainforest Alliance, an NGO that pioneered eco-certification as a mechanism for reducing the impact of consumption on the environment, today named Nigel Sizer as its new President. Sizer, an ...

Ethical organisations the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ are to merge, with the two bodies to operate a single certification standard. In a joint statement, the organisations said the new standard would ...

Together, the two NGOs certify some 182,000 cocoa, coffee, and tea farmers around the world. The merger will allow those farmers, and any new farmers who choose to work with the future Rainforest ...

Nestle's decision to switch cocoa certifications has raised questions about standards. Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from ...

Since 2011, the Rainforest Alliance has run its ‘follow the frog’ campaign in an attempt to encourage consumers to switch to more sustainable products. Social media has been an important component of ...