Sustainable agriculture

Labelling Rainforest Alliance promotes environmental responsibility, social equity and economic viability for farm communities.

The Rainforest Alliance label guarantees:

• Improve livelihoods of producers, farm workers and their families, and communities
• Prevent deforestation, promote reforestation, protect biodiversity, and mitigate the consequences of climate change
• Improve efficiency and reduce costs, which often results in higher earnings
• Build climate resilience through climate-smart agricultural methods
• Improve health of farmers, workers and their families
• Protect rights of workers and children
• Respect the rights of communities
• Protect and enhance forests and other ecosystems

The labelling by an independent certification body like Ecocert enables to validate the compliance of your activities according to Rainforest Alliance standard.

To use the Rainforest Alliance label, businesses are required to seek online approval prior to printing or launching materials that use any of the following Rainforest Alliance marks:

• Rainforest Alliance certification seal
• Name ‘Rainforest Alliance’
• Rainforest Alliance corporate logo.

Agricultural products such as cocoa, coffee, tea, nuts (like hazelnuts), coconut, vegetables, cut flowers, chili, pepper.

Additionally: herbs, spices, other herbal tea ingredients, and rooibos (when cultivated with any other crop listed previously or in case of supply chain certification with no farming in scope).

Rainforest Alliance is intended for:

• Small and large farms (Producers, Grower groups).
• Single site and multi-site organizations (Processors, Importers or Exporters, Brands, Distributors).