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.... Continue Reading
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.... Continue Reading
Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture. Find a few examples in this article.... Continue Reading
Forest conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices increase carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions.... Continue Reading
This new tailor-made program in partnership with JDE Peet’s, aims to strengthen JDE Peet’s tea supply chain—and the Turkish tea sector more broadly—by training thousands of local tea farmers on improved sustainability practices.
In the coffee-producing highlands of Gusii, western Kenya, the Rainforest Alliance is working with smallholder farmers and local supply-chain actors to create healthy and productive farms, restore fragile ecosystems, and boost farmer incomes.
Leila Yassine, Global Advocacy Manager at the Rainforest Alliance, speaks to the BBC Wildlife Magazine about what we expect and hope to see at COP28.
How the Rainforest Alliance is promoting locally-led and nature-based climate action across farms, forests, rural landscapes, and supply chains. View more
Explore how we are working to build climate resilience and reduce emissions across farms, forests, and rural landscapes around the world. View more
Leila Yassin, the Rainforest Alliance’s global advocacy manager for nature, demystifies the climate change negotiations taking place at this year’s COP conference.
