Droughts. Floods. Shorter growing seasons. Economic insecurity. For communities around the world, climate change poses daunting challenges—and disproportionately impacts poor rural communities who depend on the land to live.
The Rainforest Alliance has long worked to conserve tropical forests—a vital defense against climate change—by partnering with forest communities on improved land management practices. We also train farmers in climate-smart agriculture, helping them to adapt to current climate impacts and prepare for future challenges. Our work focuses on protecting forests and land in ways that strengthen local livelihoods.
Explore how we are working to build climate resilience and reduce emissions across farms, forests, and rural landscapes around the world.
How the Rainforest Alliance is promoting locally-led and nature-based climate action across farms, forests, rural landscapes, and supply chains.
Explore how the 2020 Certification Program is inherently oriented towards climate-smart agriculture with a focus on adaptation and resilience.
The Rainforest Alliance is working towards building climate resilience and driving climate mitigation across farms, forests, and rural landscapes, supporting companies to significantly reduce GHG emissions and build resilience of their supply chains, and advancing key policies, programs, and investments that support locally led and nature-based climate action.
The Rainforest Alliance believes that agroforestry systems provide a holistic approach, simultaneously conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods, and increasing the resilience of agriculture to climate-change impacts.
A key aspect of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is helping farmers to improve farm productivity, thus achieve higher incomes and improved standard of living. Our four main interconnected areas of work—certification, landscape management, tailored supply chain services, and advocacy—have been designed to help support this goal.
Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Find a few examples in this article.
Forest conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices increase carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions.
Many of the same government, civil society, and corporate leaders who attend the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali will also participate in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Riyadh, alongside the G20 Summit. These leaders need to connect the summits […]
For farmers, sustainability is a journey. The destination? Regenerative agriculture.... Continue Reading
Building upon our years of experience and expertise in the tea sector, the Rainforest Alliance Regenerative Tea Scorecard offers both certified and non-certified supply chain actors a voluntary tool to guide their transition to regenerative tea farming. The scorecard supports companies in evaluating tea producers against key regenerative agriculture practices and identify areas of improvement.
What can be done to reduce this reliance on pesticides and the negative consequences of pesticide use? A practical and cost-effective answer is integrated pest management (IPM).... Continue Reading
A story in The Guardian exploring the challenges facing cocoa-growing communities in Chiapas, Mexico highlights how the Rainforest Alliance’s teams are working with local cocoa farmers to provide support in building resilience against climate change.
With support from OXO and 1% for the Planet, we are supporting local and Indigenous coffee-farming communities in Chiapas, Mexico, to adopt regenerative agriculture. ... Continue Reading